Subject: Re: bug#23151: 25.1.50; Emacs should have a convenient command for saving unchanged buffers

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:09:44 -0400

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  > During an unrelated discussion on emacs-devel, it turns out that
  > virtually everybody is in the habit of making a change, then deleting
  > the change, just to make `C-x C-s' work.

That's how I do it.  It's convenient and natural.

  >   This means that there is a
  > need for Emacs to offer a command to save buffers, even if they aren't
  > changed.

I draw a different conclusion: Emacs already has a simple and obvious
way to save an unchanged buffer, so no new features are needed for this.

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