Re: Creating an empty file

[Michaël Cadilhac]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> If I do
>>>> C-x C-f somefile.txt RET C-x C-s
>>>> in order to create and save an empty file, Emacs replies
>>>>
>>>> No changes need to be saved
>>>>
>>>> and does not actually save the file, even though saving the file would
>>>> change the state on disk.
>>>
>>> I can't reproduce it.
>>
>> I can, even with emacs -Q.
>
> I think Michaël assumed that I meant to open an _existing_ file.

Worse, I misread the RET : I did C-x C-f a.txt RET *RET* C-x C-s ;
sorry my bad.

If I have to create an empty file, I do C-x C-f a.txt RET RET
<backspace> then save ; this is why I did that.

The ... unnatural way (but Emacs way) to do it is probably :
C-x C-f a.txt RET C-u M-~ C-x C-s

My opinion is that Emacs is doing TRT. But I may be influenced by some
years of practice :-)

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