Re: something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <95fee263-abed-4ccc-8e1c-f63f227c7517@googlegroups.com>,
 agjf.tucker@gmail.com wrote:

> I have searched the archives, where I found this advice to someone suffering 
> a similar problem:
> 
> "To find out what's going on, invoke the function visited-file-modtime from 
> the buffer of the offending file, and compare the result it returns with the 
> time stamp for that file returned by file-attributes."
> 
> I have tried running these functions with M-x but I get [No Match].  Any 
> ideas?

These are Lisp functions, not interactive commands. Run them with M-:

M-: (visited-file-modtime)
M-: (file-attributes buffer-file-name)

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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