From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, nospam@spamgourmet.com
Subject: Re: Update filename history after several actions
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:10:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3bn5y0e2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EPv4F-0007mJ-KG@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:51:47 -0400")
> In those places
> where such processing is required, a more preferable way is to insert
> the contents of a file into a temporary buffer.
> That is definitely true. However, there are a lot of places to
> change--and it could be a difficult change, in places that alter the
> file and want to be careful not to lose it (places that use
> file-precious-flag). So I don't think that is a possible solution
> in the short term.
There's also the risk that the user has opened the file by hand with
find-file in which case Emacs shouldn't modify the file without also
updating the corresponding buffer. find-file-noselect takes care of that.
Stefan
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2005-10-04 5:02 ` Update filename history after several actions Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-04 7:13 ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-10-08 0:04 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-09 18:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-10 6:14 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-11 14:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-12 5:47 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-13 4:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-13 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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