From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rename-file
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:38:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d46hejn8.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvbpm254my.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:16:08 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> Why isn't the buffer, which is visiting a file, renamed
>>> when I rename the underlying file with rename-file?
>
>> Not only that, but subsequently doing `C-h v buffer-file-name' on that
>> buffer returns the previous name, though that file(name) no longer
>> exists.
>
> That's perfectly OK. It's exactly as if someone had done "mv" from
> outside Emacs (or from a M-x shell buffer). There's nothing wrong with
> such a situation. C-x C-s will (re)create the file.
I should have left out the though-clause above, it was a misguided
afterthought. What's problematic is that returning the previous name
contradicts the doc string of buffer-file-name: "Name of file visited in
current buffer, or nil if not visiting a file."
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 16:05 rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 18:58 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 3:16 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-27 8:38 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2009-08-27 9:09 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 10:01 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 10:21 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 11:28 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 11:50 ` rename-file Miles Bader
2009-08-27 14:59 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 12:18 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 17:08 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 19:21 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 20:20 ` rename-file Lennart Borgman
2009-08-26 20:35 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 3:15 ` rename-file Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 3:25 ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-27 3:41 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 17:11 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 0:46 ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 22:09 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 14:47 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 20:42 ` rename-file martin rudalics
2009-08-27 13:49 ` rename-file Daniel Colascione
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