From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: 23276@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:20:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3e4wew9.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABr8ebZrG2Kk1pnmAkrZoBoad0FUjs+p1b6k9-6g20oNhXUvMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > And I still am not convinced that deleting a file under auto-revert
>> > shouldn't erase its buffer. Otherwise, it sounds like just
>> > half-auto-revert to me. Would we keep the buffer non-empty if the
>> > file existed but was empty?
>>
>> I would not want it to erase the buffer. Countless have been the times that
>> I've been working on a project, and an unbridled rm took away code from the
>> disk which I was very grateful to find was still in a buffer.
>
> How is it different from clobbering a file by making it empty?
$ echo hello > foo.txt
$ emacs -Q foo.txt &
M-x auto-revert-mode
$ echo -n > foo.txt
M-x undo
Clobbering a file doesn't imply that you lose its previous contents.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-17 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 11:07 bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present Anders Lindgren
2016-04-12 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-12 16:14 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 18:44 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 18:55 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-04-16 20:56 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-16 20:35 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 20:56 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-04-16 21:30 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-17 1:54 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-17 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 2:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-17 2:57 ` John Mastro
2016-04-17 8:52 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-18 8:26 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-17 13:20 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2016-04-17 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 16:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-17 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 8:24 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-29 20:02 ` bug#23276: autorevert for a deleted dired directory (ref: 23276) Boruch Baum
2020-12-29 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-29 20:45 ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-29 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-29 21:18 ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-29 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-27 14:09 ` bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present Lars Ingebrigtsen
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