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From: | Mathias Dahl |
Subject: | Re: find-file for file that was deleted, when visiting buffer still exists |
Date: | Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:02:12 +0100 |
1. Visit a file `foo' in a buffer. Close the window, but don't kill the buffer. 2. Delete file `foo' (e.g. `delete-file' or some other way that doesn't also kill the buffer). 3. `C-x C-f foo' This raises an error saying that the file no longer exists. ... Buffer `foo' was visiting file `foo', which no longer exists. Choose one:
s RET - Save buffer `foo' as file `foo' k RET - Visit a new, empty file in buffer `foo' RET - Do nothing
What about b RET - Switch to buffer `foo' I think that it would be useful to notify the user of the existing buffer. Who knows, maybe the file was deleted by mistake, which means the user is lucky that Emacs still has a copy of it. Unfortunately he might not find that out because of how Emacs currently handles this scenario. I agree with Drew, it would be nice with some changes here. Now or later.
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