From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: agjf.tucker@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer? 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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 =E9crit=A0: >=20 > > Hi! >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > I am using Aquamacs with AUCTeX and Skim to edit and view LaTeX documen= ts. It used to work just fine but when I upgraded to version 3.0a (based o= n Emacs 24), I started to get these sorts of messages. >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > Specifically, I will have run LaTeX using the button at the top. Then = I will try to start editing again. >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > 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 ke= ep editing. >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > Then when I go to run LaTeX again, a dialog box pops up saying, "someth= ing.tex has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway?" I click on the = "Yes" button to run LaTeX. >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > Immediately I will get at the bottom of the frame, "something.tex chang= ed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y,n,r or C-h)". I press "y". >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > And then it's fine again for a little while! >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > There is a thread about this already on the Aquamacs group: https://gro= ups.google.com/forum/#!topic/aquamacs-devel/yX-kkfJTNlU. >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > There was some suggestion that it might be related to use of a file hos= ting 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 t= his problem). >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > David Reitter (author of Aquamacs) says it is not a problem of his maki= ng and that I might have better luck asking here. >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > Thanks, Alistair. >=20 >=20 >=20 > I happened to see some strange behavior (I can't remember if it's the sam= e) 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). >=20 > But, if you use only one macintosh with a local hard drive, this can not = be the correct explanation.