GNU bug report logs - #23276
25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present

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Package: emacs;

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 #56 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23276: 25.0.92;
 Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:01:18 +0200

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

>> Clobbering a file doesn't imply that you lose its previous contents.
>
> I never said otherwise.

Then what's the meaning of your

>> > How is it different from clobbering a file by making it empty?

in response to John's

>> >> 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.

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