From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer? Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:57:42 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <52d9ecfe-e978-4974-b1ae-2df1f5ed7ac0@googlegroups.com> <190140f5-75fd-41b6-bc0c-67b5ca8cf52f@googlegroups.com> <95fee263-abed-4ccc-8e1c-f63f227c7517@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412881230 2418 80.91.229.3 (9 Oct 2014 19:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:00:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 21:00:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcIwl-0007CT-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:00:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcIwl-0002mj-0q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:00:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="15363"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194Cy9Nnh1WIc51/XFq9Em4" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E4EQvtWdVvUJLBHE6f9k3dYDF3M= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208079 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100355 Archived-At: 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 ***