Re: [VETO] Revert buffer patch
>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper <andyp(a)bea.com>
writes:
Andy> At 05:36 PM 11/6/2001 -0500, Paul Krause wrote:
> That's for sure. It especially bites me when I compile and
> skip to the next-error, which is usually line 2394 in a 3500
> line file. The file gets fontified and parsed, but to edit it,
> but have to check out from perforce. Then not only does the
> fortification and parsing start all over, but the
> buffer-position gets trashed (probably an unrelated bug in
> perforce.el, but I never figured it out), and I'm back on line
> 1 again. Kinda sucks.
I'll see your "kinda" and raise it to "really." I see this is a
problem but ...
Andy> Yeah, I get this. I think its actually a bug in XEmacs
Andy> related to revert-buffer. Doing the md5 thing avoids both
Andy> problems.
... let's not "avoid" problems where we can _prove_ the avoidance can
cause data corruption. Let's fix the problems. And for heaven's
sake, _don't_ make dangerous "avoidance" behavior the default!
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