Make Emacs ignore changes to file on disk

Question

I'm using andLinux and for whatever reason, emacs seems to think that the file I'm editing has been changed every time I try to edit/save and keeps reprompting me. Very annoying. Is there a way to make emacs stop checking the file on the disk?

Answer 1

You can use the accepted answer to the SO question Emacs: how to disable ‘file changed on disk’ checking? which basically says to add this to your .emacs:

(defun ask-user-about-supersession-threat (fn)
  "blatantly ignore files that changed on disk"
  )

Though this seems dangerous to do...