From: agjf.tucker@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer?
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 07:51:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef50abcf-1270-4844-8a6f-f6a9875c303d@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <190140f5-75fd-41b6-bc0c-67b5ca8cf52f@googlegroups.com>
Yes, to clarify, this is on my local disk. Noone else has access.
I looked up auto-revert-mode, thanks for the suggestion Alexander, however from the description it's not at all the desired behaviour...
On Tuesday, 7 October 2014 08:40:19 UTC+1, sokoba...@gmail.com wrote:
> Le lundi 6 octobre 2014 17:01:22 UTC+2, agjf....@gmail.com a écrit :
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> > At the bottom of the frame I will get my first message, "Something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y,n,r or C-h)" I press "y" to keep editing.
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> > There is a thread about this already on the Aquamacs group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/aquamacs-devel/yX-kkfJTNlU.
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> > There was some suggestion that it might be related to use of a file hosting service like Dropbox, and it's true I used to have Dropbox installed. But I uninstalled it some time ago (because I thought that might resolve this problem).
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> > David Reitter (author of Aquamacs) says it is not a problem of his making and that I might have better luck asking here.
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> I happened to see some strange behavior (I can't remember if it's the same) when the file was hosted on a server with a clock out of sync (the file was considered newer than the current time on the machine running emacs).
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> But, if you use only one macintosh with a local hard drive, this can not be the correct explanation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-07 14:51 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 [this message]
2014-10-09 16:48 ` agjf.tucker
2014-10-09 18:57 ` Barry Margolin
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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