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bug#13149: 24.3.50; Emacs thinks file was changed outside Emacs, but it
From: |
Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: |
bug#13149: 24.3.50; Emacs thinks file was changed outside Emacs, but it was not |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:48:24 +0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Dunno whether this will ring a bell. This happened once the other day,
> and I just ignored it. It has now happened again.
>
> I am editing a file, doing nothing special. Suddenly when I try to type
> a char Emacs asks me (taken from *Messages*):
>
> bar.el changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) n
> ask-user-about-supersession-threat: File changed on disk: c:/foo/bar.el
>
> I just reverted the buffer and continued. But I am positive that
> nothing outside Emacs modified the file. I'm not even aware of
> something running that could do that. I was editing and saving
> occasionally - nothing more.
>
> Anyway, hoping this helps in some way...
I've been seeing the same kind of prompts lately when editing files in
Emacs in Ubuntu inside a virtual machine.
IIRC all those files were were mounted from the host machine (MS Windows
7) using the vboxsf file system type.