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bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too
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Stefan Kangas |
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bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions |
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Sun, 01 Mar 2020 01:27:34 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> When editing an externally changed file (under version control, no idea
> whether that is related), I get the following questions (see below in
> the input and output section).
>
> It does not make sense at all for Emacs to ask
>
> smob-convert.sh changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
>
> as a reply to me typing C-x C-s since C-x C-s is _not_ a request to edit
> the buffer. It is a request to save the file _after_ editing the
> buffer, and I already discussed the consequences of editing and saving
> with Emacs previously.
>
> Apart from being annoying by asking me the same question several times,
> the question does not even make any sense the second time round.
> I never know whether Emacs requires me to answer this quite nonsensical
> question with "y" or "n" in order to write the changed buffer, and what
> will happen in either of the two cases of answering this no longer
> applicable question.
Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, it didn't get a reply at the
time.
Maybe something has changed since you reported this, because I'm
seeing the following messages:
(New file)
Saving file /tmp/foo.txt...
Wrote /tmp/foo.txt
foo.txt changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes.
Saving file /tmp/foo.txt...
foo.txt has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway? (y or n) y
This makes a lot of sense to me. The prompts are really about two
different things, which seems to now be fully clear.
Given the above, I don't see any need to do any further changes here.
I'll close this bug in a couple of weeks unless there is more to
discuss.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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