[OS X Emacs] Saving without Resource Fork

[Nathaniel Cunningham]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:34 AM, David Reitter wrote:

> On 6 Feb 2008, at 14:23, Joshua Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When I open a file with Aquamacs, and then save it, its resource
>>>> fork is changed so that the Finder now thinks it is an Aquamacs
>>>> file.  Since Emacs is a general purpose editor, I think this is
>>>> the wrong thing to do in almost every case.
>
> Joshua, since you've investigated this: is what Aquamacs does
> different in any way from other editors such as Textedit,
> Textwrangler or BBEdit?
>
> - D

Here's my experience with some test cases:

TextEdit -- removes any creator and type codes after editing and saving a
file.  Same result as creating and saving a new file in TextEdit.

TextWrangler -- Adds TEXT type code if no type code exists previously.  Does
not modify creator code for previously-created files.  New files created
with TW get its own creator and type codes.

TexShop -- Always modifies creator and type codes.

Aquamacs -- Adds creator code if file had none before, and same behavior for
type code.  Does not modify pre-existing codes.

So other editors don't have consistent behavior, but Aquamacs's behavior
doesn't match any of my test apps.

--Nathaniel




On Feb 6, 2008 8:54 AM, Joshua Smith <jesmith at kaon.com> wrote:

> I don't know about textwrangler or bbedit -- I'm an Emacs user and
> cannot tolerate any other text editor.
>
> I just tried with TextEdit, and it did not write the creator codes.
>
> Regardless, I think Emacs is different from those editors, because it
> is universal.  You can edit binaries in hex, you can edit ZIP
> archives, etc.  The best answer would be that if I open a file which
> has a creator code, that when I save, it writes that same creator
> code out.  But short of that, not writing a creator code at all is
> definitely preferable.
>
> -Joshua
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