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Elaborate on the normal operation with find-file-existing-other-name
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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:23:24 +0000 |
| parents | a81d05721a68 |
| children | d3d87c5d1158 |
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| 973 | 973 |
| 974 If you visit two names for the same file, normally Emacs makes | 974 If you visit two names for the same file, normally Emacs makes |
| 975 two different buffers, but it warns you about the situation. | 975 two different buffers, but it warns you about the situation. |
| 976 | 976 |
| 977 @vindex find-file-existing-other-name | 977 @vindex find-file-existing-other-name |
| 978 Normally, if you visit a file which Emacs is already visiting under a | |
| 979 different name, Emacs prints a message in the echo area and uses an | |
| 980 existing buffer, where that file is visited under another name. This | |
| 981 can happen on systems that support symbolic links, or if you use a long | |
| 982 file name on a system which truncates long file names. | |
| 978 | 983 |
| 979 If Emacs should use different buffers when visiting the same file | 984 If Emacs should use different buffers when visiting the same file |
| 980 under different names, set the variable | 985 under different names, set the variable |
| 981 @code{find-file-existing-other-name} to @code{nil}. A non-@code{nil} | 986 @code{find-file-existing-other-name} to @code{nil}. A non-@code{nil} |
| 982 value, which is the default, means @code{find-file} uses the existing | 987 value, which is the default, means @code{find-file} uses the existing |