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saving a buffer when the file has been modified on disk
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Sam Steingold |
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saving a buffer when the file has been modified on disk |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:19:59 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) |
Hi
When I try to save a file which has been modified on disk by another program,
basic-save-buffer asks "<file> has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway?".
The most useful behavior would be to offer to merge the file on disk with my
current buffer, but I am not offered such an option.
Moreover, both emerge and ediff (why are there two such packages?! shouldn't
emerge be removed?) offer only file+file and buffer+buffer merges, not
buffer+file merges (this is, of course, only a minor nuisance, one can easily
create a temp buffer, insert the file there and merge buffers).
Proposal:
1. add ediff-merge-buffer-with-file which would merge the current buffer with
the file on disk if the latter has been modified.
2. remove diff-buffer-with-file.
3a. basic-save-buffer should ask "<file> has changed since visited or saved.
Merge the changes?" and, if the user agrees, call, ediff-merge-buffer-with-file
before proceeding to save the buffer. The current "abort" behavior will still
be available via C-g
OR
3b. basic-save-buffer should recommend ediff-merge-buffer-with-file:
--- files.el 25 Sep 2009 22:04:10 -0000 1.1086
+++ files.el 1 Oct 2009 18:18:16 -0000
@@ -4194,7 +4206,7 @@ Before and after saving the buffer, this
(yes-or-no-p
(format "%s has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway? "
(file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))
- (error "Save not confirmed"))
+ (error "Save not confirmed; use ediff-merge-buffer-with-file to
merge the changes"))
(save-restriction
(widen)
(save-excursion
Sam.
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