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bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 11:26:23 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (windows-nt) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> It does not make sense at all for Emacs to ask
>>
>> smob-convert.sh changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
>>
>> as a reply to me typing C-x C-s since C-x C-s is _not_ a request to edit
>> the buffer. It is a request to save the file _after_ editing the
>> buffer, and I already discussed the consequences of editing and saving
>> with Emacs previously.
> Maybe something has changed since you reported this, because I'm
> seeing the following messages:
>
> (New file)
> Saving file /tmp/foo.txt...
> Wrote /tmp/foo.txt
> foo.txt changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
> File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes.
> Saving file /tmp/foo.txt...
> foo.txt has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway? (y or n) y
>
> This makes a lot of sense to me. The prompts are really about two
> different things, which seems to now be fully clear.
>
> Given the above, I don't see any need to do any further changes here.
> I'll close this bug in a couple of weeks unless there is more to
> discuss.
I would agree with you that the second question is now more clear, but I
think the first question shouldn't be asked in this case, since there
was no edit attempt (as described in the original report).
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions,
Noam Postavsky <=
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, David Kastrup, 2020/03/01
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/01
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, David Kastrup, 2020/03/01
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/01
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, David Kastrup, 2020/03/01
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/01
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, Noam Postavsky, 2020/03/01
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/02
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, David Kastrup, 2020/03/02
- bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/02