Re: Creating an empty file

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-01-23 18:57, Micha?l Cadilhac <michael@cadilhac.name> wrote:
>> Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:
>>> So are you suggesting that when saving a file whose buffer has not
>>> been changed, that Emacs should compare it to the disk file anyhow?
>>> I had always (always=for the last 10 seconds) thought that it didn't
>>> for efficiency reasons.
>> Well, the modification flag has a certain use that should be
>> preserved. What may be done is to add a var
>> `new-files-are-already-modified'.
> 
> Do we really *need* this?  The `C-x C-s' command will not save empty,
> new, unmodified files.  The `C-x C-w' command will happily write empty
> files though...

`C-x C-w M-p RET', but only immediately after the new file was visited
(otherwise file-name-history may have been updated by an intervening
command).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA