From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer?
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:57:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-256EED.14574209102014@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 95fee263-abed-4ccc-8e1c-f63f227c7517@googlegroups.com
In article <95fee263-abed-4ccc-8e1c-f63f227c7517@googlegroups.com>,
agjf.tucker@gmail.com wrote:
> I have searched the archives, where I found this advice to someone suffering
> a similar problem:
>
> "To find out what's going on, invoke the function visited-file-modtime from
> the buffer of the offending file, and compare the result it returns with the
> time stamp for that file returned by file-attributes."
>
> I have tried running these functions with M-x but I get [No Match]. Any
> ideas?
These are Lisp functions, not interactive commands. Run them with M-:
M-: (visited-file-modtime)
M-: (file-attributes buffer-file-name)
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-09 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-06 15:01 something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer? agjf.tucker
2014-10-06 17:03 ` Alexander Baier
2014-10-07 7:40 ` sokobania.01
2014-10-07 14:51 ` agjf.tucker
2014-10-09 16:48 ` agjf.tucker
2014-10-09 18:57 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2014-10-16 20:13 ` agjf.tucker
2014-10-16 21:37 ` Barry Margolin
2014-10-17 14:20 ` agjf.tucker
2014-10-25 7:29 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-10-09 17:45 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-10-16 20:42 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
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