From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File watch support in autorevert.el
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:47:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83txqntv3j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ninn0ks.fsf@gmx.de>
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:31:15 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > You cannot expect that, not in general, because there's no such
> > promise in the docs of these interfaces. That's why the interface
> > returns to you the full information about the transaction. I don't
> > think it's wise to ignore that information.
>
> At least for now, inotify.el returns nil as file name in the event ...
Probably because some events don't provide a file name.
> OTOH, do we want to allow a redefinition of a running watch?
Not sure, probably not.
> >> > . At least on Windows, turning on auto-revert-mode and then modifying
> >> > and saving the file announces that it was auto-reverted. This
> >> > didn't happen with the auto-revert method that doesn't use file
> >> > notifications. Is this a bug?
> >>
> >> I have an old Emacs instance, w/o support of inotify in
> >> autorevert.el. There I see the same message.
> >
> > I don't see this in Emacs 24.2.92 on Windows.
>
> I see this message with
>
> GNU Emacs 24.2.91.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.13)
> of 2013-01-04 on detlef
Probably because the underlying primitives (file-attributes etc.)
behave differently on GNU/Linux and on Windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-11 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-10 14:28 File watch support in autorevert.el Michael Albinus
2013-01-10 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-10 17:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2013-01-10 20:38 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-11 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-11 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-11 15:01 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-11 16:09 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-11 16:19 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 16:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-11 22:43 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-12 13:34 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-12 19:08 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-17 9:38 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-17 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 19:19 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-17 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-11 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-11 15:18 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-11 16:31 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-11 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-11 22:47 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-12 13:14 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-12 14:16 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 22:39 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-11 23:01 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-12 13:08 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 13:26 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-12 14:12 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-12 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-12 19:04 ` Michael Albinus
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