Re: Creating an empty file

[David Kastrup]

Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> ...
>> This would probably also apply for an existing file that has been
>> changed on disk, but not in the Emacs buffer.  In this case it might
>> possibly make sense to ask the "revert buffer" question before saving.
>> In the case of a non-existing file, there is nothing to revert to,
>> however.
>
> So are you suggesting that when saving a file whose buffer has not
> been changed, that Emacs should compare it to the disk file anyhow?
> I had always (always=for the last 10 seconds) thought that it didn't
> for efficiency reasons.

That would assume that attempting to save an unchanged file is a
frequent operation.  I doubt that.

-- 
David Kastrup