From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: 18336@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 01:27:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7z86hs9.fsf@stefankangas.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwaq74xg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:44:11 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> When editing an externally changed file (under version control, no idea
> whether that is related), I get the following questions (see below in
> the input and output section).
>
> It does not make sense at all for Emacs to ask
>
> smob-convert.sh changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
>
> as a reply to me typing C-x C-s since C-x C-s is _not_ a request to edit
> the buffer. It is a request to save the file _after_ editing the
> buffer, and I already discussed the consequences of editing and saving
> with Emacs previously.
>
> Apart from being annoying by asking me the same question several times,
> the question does not even make any sense the second time round.
> I never know whether Emacs requires me to answer this quite nonsensical
> question with "y" or "n" in order to write the changed buffer, and what
> will happen in either of the two cases of answering this no longer
> applicable question.
Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, it didn't get a reply at the
time.
Maybe something has changed since you reported this, because I'm
seeing the following messages:
(New file)
Saving file /tmp/foo.txt...
Wrote /tmp/foo.txt
foo.txt changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes.
Saving file /tmp/foo.txt...
foo.txt has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway? (y or n) y
This makes a lot of sense to me. The prompts are really about two
different things, which seems to now be fully clear.
Given the above, I don't see any need to do any further changes here.
I'll close this bug in a couple of weeks unless there is more to
discuss.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-01 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-27 7:44 bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions David Kastrup
2020-03-01 0:27 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-03-01 16:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-01 16:38 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-01 17:45 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-01 18:22 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 4:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-02 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 11:41 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 8:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-02 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 9:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-02 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 9:53 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 12:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-02 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-05 14:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 15:07 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-05 17:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 1:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 15:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 19:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 3:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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