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Re: Creating an empty file
From: |
Giorgos Keramidas |
Subject: |
Re: Creating an empty file |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:58:50 +0200 |
On 2007-01-23 18:57, Micha?l Cadilhac <address@hidden> wrote:
>Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:
>>David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>> This would probably also apply for an existing file that has been
>>> changed on disk, but not in the Emacs buffer. In this case it might
>>> possibly make sense to ask the "revert buffer" question before saving.
>>> In the case of a non-existing file, there is nothing to revert to,
>>> however.
>>
>> So are you suggesting that when saving a file whose buffer has not
>> been changed, that Emacs should compare it to the disk file anyhow?
>> I had always (always=for the last 10 seconds) thought that it didn't
>> for efficiency reasons.
>
> Well, the modification flag has a certain use that should be
> preserved. What may be done is to add a var
> `new-files-are-already-modified'.
Do we really *need* this? The `C-x C-s' command will not save empty,
new, unmodified files. The `C-x C-w' command will happily write empty
files though...
- Re: Creating an empty file, Jay Belanger, 2007/01/23
- Re: Creating an empty file, David Kastrup, 2007/01/23
- Re: Creating an empty file, Jay Belanger, 2007/01/23
- Re: Creating an empty file, David Kastrup, 2007/01/23
- Re: Creating an empty file, Michaël Cadilhac, 2007/01/23
- Re: Creating an empty file, David Kastrup, 2007/01/23
- Re: Creating an empty file, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/23
- Re: Creating an empty file, martin rudalics, 2007/01/24
- Re: Creating an empty file,
Giorgos Keramidas <=
- Re: Creating an empty file, Kevin Rodgers, 2007/01/25
- Re: Creating an empty file, Romain Francoise, 2007/01/25
- Re: Creating an empty file, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/25
- Re: Creating an empty file, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/25
- Re: Creating an empty file, martin rudalics, 2007/01/25
- Re: Creating an empty file, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2007/01/25
- Re: Creating an empty file, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/25
- Re: Creating an empty file, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/26
- Re: Creating an empty file, Piet van Oostrum, 2007/01/25
Re: Creating an empty file, Michaël Cadilhac, 2007/01/23