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From: Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22
Date: 20 Sep 2007 11:03:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764258jmh.fsf@zorba.coolheads.com> (raw)

In older versions of Emacs, 

    C-X C-F ENTER 

has always re-read the file associated with the buffer the user was
already in.

In my shiny new Emacs 22, this doesn't happen.  Instead,
what is opened is the directory in which the current buffer's
file lives.  Apparently, one has to type in the name of the
file in order to refresh it from disk:

    C-X C-F (name of file, explicitly typed in) ENTER

This lowers the productivity of telephone-mediated collaborative
editing sessions.  In such sessions, participants need to update the
current file from disk, many, many times -- whenever any other
participant changes it.  To have to type in the file name all over
again, every time somebody changes something, is insupportably
burdensome.

I would urge that this important defaulting behavior be present
by default in Emacs 22, as it has always been.  If that's
not possible for some reason, I would appreciate instructions
on how to restore this behavior in Emacs 22.  Thanks in advance!

-- Steve

Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant
Coolheads Consulting

Co-editor, Topic Maps International Standard (ISO/IEC 13250)
Co-editor, draft Topic Maps -- Reference Model (ISO/IEC 13250-5)

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-20 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20 15:03 Steve Newcomb [this message]
2007-09-20 23:45 ` an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22 Drew Adams
2007-09-21  0:55   ` Denis Bueno
2007-09-21  1:32   ` Eric Hanchrow
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1087.1190336137.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-21  4:01     ` Markus Triska
2007-09-22  2:21   ` Steve Newcomb
2007-09-22 11:34     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1152.1190461055.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-24 20:41       ` Ken Goldman
2007-10-17 22:55       ` David Combs
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1144.1190427729.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-22 20:56     ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-09-23  5:42     ` Tim X
     [not found] <mailman.1083.1190331955.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-21  5:42 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-09-21  7:38   ` Drew Adams
2007-09-21  8:05     ` Dave Pawson
     [not found] <mailman.1080.1190330832.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-20 23:36 ` Joost Kremers
2007-09-22  0:08 ` Joe Fineman

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