Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed

[Daniel Colascione]

On 08/28/2016 08:36 PM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> On 2016-08-28 20:29, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The patch below is supposed to change Emacs such that if the file's
> > timestamp has changed, but the contents is still the same, it doesn't
> > prompt the user about a supersession-threat.
> >
> > Any objection?
>
> This sounds like a neat feature! Are you sure you want (point-min)
> and
(point-max) rather than 1 and (buffer-size), though?

The code widens the buffer first.

> Also, maybe this should be predicated on a test for small-enough
files? For large-ish files, it could make things slow.

Memory is very fast these days, and compare-buffer-substrings is efficient.