Re: <filename> changed on disk; really edit the buffer?

[mdaily2002]

On Nov 18, 2:12 pm, mdaily2...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 13, 6:12 am, Stephan Lukits <stephan.luk...@FernUni-Hagen.de>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > martin rudalics schrieb:
>
> > >> It changes time even before Emacs complains.  It changes time
> > >> exactly at that moment when emacs does auto-saving.
>
> > > Do you have `auto-save-visited-file-name' non-nil?
>
> > Yes.  After setting it to nil the problem is gone.
> > I'm sorry for all the trouble.  I can't remember
> > having this option set but it was changed.
>
> > If this behavior is reasonable or if this setting
> > is an end user setting is another question.  If this
> > setting is set I wouldn't expect Emacs to complain
> > about a changed file which was changed by Emacs.
>
> > Thank you all for your kind help and best regards
> > Stephan
>
> I was also having this problem with emacs on windows and it was very
> annoying.  So far the solution seems to be working.  I don't think it
> has anything to do with summer time since that is now over in the US
> as well.
>
> Mike Daily

Actually it didn't work.  The only solution I found that seems to work
is to turn auto-save-default to nil, with the caveat that that gets
rid of auto-saving.  It looks like emacs auto-saves every 300
characters you type into the file; hence this is why it thinks the
file has changed on disk.

Mike