bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
>> Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,  stefan@marxist.se,  18336@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:14:12 -0500
>> 
>> > I tried the current master, and I see the same as on the emacs-27
>> > branch, with a file not under any VCS.
>> >
>> > I have no idea how you see something so different.
>> 
>> I've tried this now too, and I see the same as Eli, even on Emacs 26.3.
>
> The only idea I had meanwhile is that maybe David has some local code
> which redefines the functions involved in this use case.

Nope.  The two commits of my own do not touch anything even remotely in
the vicinity.

>> By the way, the "Save anyway?" question doesn't get logged to
>> *Messages*.
>
> In Emacs 27 as well?  Probably because we use there some API that
> doesn't log its text or something.

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David Kastrup