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bug#9139: 24.0.50; Inappropriate warning: "File no longer exists!"
From: |
Bastien |
Subject: |
bug#9139: 24.0.50; Inappropriate warning: "File no longer exists!" |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:27:06 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:29:39 +0200
>>
>> Emacs sends an inappropriate warning message when trying to
>> find a file that isn't on the hardrive but is the filename of
>> a buffer, thus somehow "existing" in Emacs.
>>
>> To reproduce the problem:
>>
>> emacs -Q
>> C-x f ~/foo.txt
>> C-x b bar
>> C-x f ~/foo.txt
>>
>> => File no longer exists!
>
> Why is that inappropriate?
>
> Emacs checks whether the file is newer
> than it was when it was last visited or saved, to make sure you don't
> accidentally overwrite the file with stale data. If the file no
> longer exists, this test cannot be performed, so Emacs alerts you to
> that fact.
I understand the need for a warning, but emacs asserts that the file
*no longer* exists while this file never existed before.
I suggest changing the message like this:
"File %s doesn't exist"
--
Bastien