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From: | Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: | bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present |
Date: | Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:20:22 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: >> > And I still am not convinced that deleting a file under auto-revert >> > shouldn't erase its buffer. Otherwise, it sounds like just >> > half-auto-revert to me. Would we keep the buffer non-empty if the >> > file existed but was empty? >> >> I would not want it to erase the buffer. Countless have been the times that >> I've been working on a project, and an unbridled rm took away code from the >> disk which I was very grateful to find was still in a buffer. > > How is it different from clobbering a file by making it empty? $ echo hello > foo.txt $ emacs -Q foo.txt & M-x auto-revert-mode $ echo -n > foo.txt M-x undo Clobbering a file doesn't imply that you lose its previous contents.
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