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24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions

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Message #47 received at 18336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>,
 18336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs
 asks too many questions
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:42:53 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>,  stefan <at> marxist.se,  18336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:14:12 -0500
>> 
>> > I tried the current master, and I see the same as on the emacs-27
>> > branch, with a file not under any VCS.
>> >
>> > I have no idea how you see something so different.
>> 
>> I've tried this now too, and I see the same as Eli, even on Emacs 26.3.
>
> The only idea I had meanwhile is that maybe David has some local code
> which redefines the functions involved in this use case.

Nope.  The two commits of my own do not touch anything even remotely in
the vicinity.

>> By the way, the "Save anyway?" question doesn't get logged to
>> *Messages*.
>
> In Emacs 27 as well?  Probably because we use there some API that
> doesn't log its text or something.

-- 
David Kastrup

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