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Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes |
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Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:47:46 +0300 |
> From: Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 15:33:23 +0200
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> After an unclean shutdown, I opened a file, say main.c. Emacs said that
> the file had auto-save data and suggested a recover-this-file. But upon
> checking, #main.c# was byte-by-byte identical to main.c.
This generally happens only with plain-ASCII files. Non-ASCII files
are saved in auto-save files in the internal representation, which is
generally different from the bytestream in the original file.
> Maybe emacs should check that the auto-save file is not identical before
> suggesting a recover-this-file. Do you agree?
Why is it a problem that they are identical?
- When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Andrea Monaco, 2022/10/02
- Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Stefan Kangas, 2022/10/02
- Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/02
- Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Stefan Kangas, 2022/10/02
- Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/02
- Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Stefan Kangas, 2022/10/02
- Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/02
Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes, Andrea Monaco, 2022/10/02