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#23276
25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present
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Reported by: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:09:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.0.92
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #50 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> > And I still am not convinced that deleting a file under auto-revert
>> > shouldn't erase its buffer. Otherwise, it sounds like just
>> > half-auto-revert to me. Would we keep the buffer non-empty if the
>> > file existed but was empty?
>>
>> I would not want it to erase the buffer. Countless have been the times that
>> I've been working on a project, and an unbridled rm took away code from the
>> disk which I was very grateful to find was still in a buffer.
>
> How is it different from clobbering a file by making it empty?
$ echo hello > foo.txt
$ emacs -Q foo.txt &
M-x auto-revert-mode
$ echo -n > foo.txt
M-x undo
Clobbering a file doesn't imply that you lose its previous contents.
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