From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.orgmode Subject: Re: Usecase for inotify? Re: How to add content from a file to a table automatically Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:58:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83lic0hnkr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <50ee34c8.09fb640a.6b64.0e5a@mx.google.com> <87a9shaans.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357844807 25442 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2013 19:06:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:06:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: darcamo@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 10 20:07:03 2013 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 1TtNSq-0001vQ-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:06:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36404 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNSa-0003LD-JW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:06:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNSV-0003L3-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:06:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNST-0002OM-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:06:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:44964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNKf-0008Tf-0Z; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MGF00600B78RN00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:58:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MGF006VWBDDOR20@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:58:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87a9shaans.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:156193 gmane.emacs.orgmode:64506 Archived-At: > From: Jambunathan K > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:37:19 +0530 > Cc: emacs-orgmode , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > There is support for inotify in Emacs. Last I heard, people were > interested in hearing use-cases. > > I am not sure it qualifies as a minimal use-case. But it is something > that comes out of real life. So here it goes to emacs-devel... Thanks. However, at least from my perspective, a useful use case should include a description of how a feature was actually implemented using the file notification, how the provided APIs were used to implement it, and what experience and suggestions for API modifications were gained as result.