From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Popup when buffer file is changed on disk Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:59:02 +0200 Message-ID: <01c5131b$Blat.v2.4$36d1efe0@zahav.net.il> References: <200502040036.j140atb03430@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <009d01c50bbb$9aa2fd50$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <000c01c50bc5$248dc1e0$6501a8c0@y8h26> <01c50bd6$Blat.v2.4$48866000@zahav.net.il> <001701c50be6$0eb9fa20$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c50c1c$Blat.v2.4$88670e40@zahav.net.il> <002801c50c2a$cbce93c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c50c31$Blat.v2.4$d9a7a2a0@zahav.net.il> <000301c50c38$6a152640$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200502061704.j16H4iG15131@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502110033.j1B0XD907696@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502130141.j1D1fr519696@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <01c51185$Blat.v2.4$b97e1e60@zahav.net.il> <200502150305.j1F351K06222@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108444435 28414 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2005 05:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 06:13:55 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0v15-0004II-7X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:12:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0vGl-0002Lc-33 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:29:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0vEQ-0001LV-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:26:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0vEJ-0001HG-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0vEG-00019V-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:26:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0uon-00088n-Tp; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (tony06-88-59.inter.net.il [80.230.88.59]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id DTJ43233 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:59:49 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <200502150305.j1F351K06222@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:05:01 -0600 (CST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33451 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33451 > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:05:01 -0600 (CST) > From: Luc Teirlinck > CC: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > What about the following? > > (defcustom auto-revert-stop-on-user-input t > "When non-nil, user input temporarily interrupts Auto-Revert Mode. > More precisely, Auto-Revert Mode checks for user input after > handling each buffer and does not process any further > buffers (until the next run of the timer) if user input is > available. When nil, Auto-Revert Mode checks files and reverts > buffers, with quitting disabled, without paying attention to user > input. Thus, Emacs could appear to be hung for a while." > :group 'auto-revert > :type 'boolean) I think this is okay, except that I'd remove "More precisely", and replace the last sentence with something like Thus, Emacs could appear sluggish in reacting to user input. (I don't like telling users that Emacs appears to be hung.)