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Re: creating empty file
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: creating empty file |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:12:06 +0200 |
> From: Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug,comp.emacs
>
> > The state of the filesystem should depend only on the buffer's
> > state when doing "C-x s", not on the buffer's history.
>
> Surely that's true and desirable. In the last consequence this means
> that you could reliably detect when a sequence of modifications results
> in the same state of the buffer as the state at the time the buffer was
> loaded, so that the buffer should be marked unmodified.
I'm not so sure. One of the popular ways to save a buffer even if it
is unmodified is to insert a character, then delete it, and type
"C-x C-s". So this should at least be controlled by a user option,
not a permanent change.