From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Newcomb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22 Date: 20 Sep 2007 11:03:02 -0400 Message-ID: <8764258jmh.fsf@zorba.coolheads.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190330850 4116 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2007 23:27:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:27:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 21 01:27:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IYVQc-0008Pe-PF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:27:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYVQa-0003rJ-Qf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYNYe-0000CD-LU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYNYd-0000C1-5H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYNYc-0000By-Tq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from coolheads.com ([66.180.173.27] helo=amati.petesbox.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYNYc-0003VL-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from zorba.coolheads.com (cpe-024-025-048-063.ec.res.rr.com [24.25.48.63]) by amati.petesbox.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB6B343862 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:03:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: emacs 21.4.1 (via feedmail 8 I) Original-Lines: 51 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:27:11 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47701 Archived-At: 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) srn@coolheads.com http://www.coolheads.com direct: +1 910 363 4032 main: +1 910 363 4033 fax: +1 910 454 8461 268 Bonnet Way Southport, North Carolina 28461 USA (This communication is not private. Since the destruction of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the U.S. Congress on August 5, 2007, no electronic communications of innocent citizens can be hidden from the U.S. government. Shamefully, our own generation, acting on fears promoted by fraudulently-elected rogues, has allowed absolute power (codenamed "unitary Executive") to be usurped by those very same rogues. Hail Caesar!)