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find-file pointlessly suggests recovery of identical auto save version


From: Dan Davison
Subject: find-file pointlessly suggests recovery of identical auto save version
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:02:31 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

find-file tells me to "consider M-x recover-this-file" even when the
contents of the auto save file are identical to the file being
opened. Would it not make sense to add an extra condition to the test
below (from after-find-file in files.el) that checks whether the backup
data is actually different? (for reasonably-sized files at least?)

Thanks,
Dan
emacs 23.0.60.1
ubuntu 8.10

              (if (and warn
                       ;; No need to warn if buffer is auto-saved
                       ;; under the name of the visited file.
                       (not (and buffer-file-name
                                 auto-save-visited-file-name))
                       (file-newer-than-file-p (or buffer-auto-save-file-name
                                                   (make-auto-save-file-name))
                                               buffer-file-name)
                       ;; insert something that is true if auto save version 
differs?                        
                                               )
                  (format "%s has auto save data; consider M-x 
recover-this-file"
                          (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name))




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