Re: Creating an empty file

[Leo]

On 2007-01-23, Jay Belanger said:

> 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.
> It seems natural, if possibly incorrect, behavior.

I like this behavior. I prevent me from creating empty files.

> If this is regarded as a bug, I would expect that an unchanged empty
> file would be treated as a special case for C-xC-s.
>
> Jay

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