From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support. Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:54:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83ipas9pmz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2181827.T3JxG88qQt@descartes> <83lifoa7hr.fsf@gnu.org> <87obkkcu92.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349238607 24700 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2012 04:30:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 06:30:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJGag-00088t-4M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:29:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG2X-0008M0-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG2T-0008Ll-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG2N-0001Dw-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:53673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG2N-0001CO-I6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:54:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBA00300THMKH00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:54:18 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBA003HMTIHHO10@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:54:18 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153976 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:10:41 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> Btw, what are Emacs use cases for using this kind of feature? > > Apart from those mentioned on the original message (dired or magit's (or > > vc-dir) status view) I'll like to mention auto-revert-mode. > > Yes, for my own use auto-revert-mode is the main one. AFAICS, all these use cases don't need support for every possible notification inotify lets you define. How about a simpler interface?