Re: Creating an empty file

[Jay Belanger]

address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> If I do
>> C-x C-f somefile.txt RET C-x C-s
>> in order to create and save an empty file, Emacs replies
>>
>> No changes need to be saved
>>
>> and does not actually save the file, even though saving the file would
>> change the state on disk.
>
> I can't reproduce it.

I can, even with emacs -Q.
It seems natural, if possibly incorrect, behavior.
If this is regarded as a bug, I would expect that an unchanged empty
file would be treated as a special case for C-xC-s.

Jay