Re: rename-file

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Why isn't the buffer, which is visiting a file, renamed
>> when I rename the underlying file with rename-file?

> Not only that, but subsequently doing `C-h v buffer-file-name' on that
> buffer returns the previous name, though that file(name) no longer
> exists.

That's perfectly OK.  It's exactly as if someone had done "mv" from
outside Emacs (or from a M-x shell buffer).  There's nothing wrong with
such a situation.  C-x C-s will (re)create the file.


        Stefan