From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: inotify support (was: auto-refresh TAGS file on ChangeLog mod?)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864p59qflg.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 48B2C783.3060004@gmail.com
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:53:55 +0200 "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
LB(> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:43:14 -0600 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
Tom> I've wanted to roll the retags idea into etags itself. It could read
Tom> a ".retags" file, daemonize, and use inotify to watch for changes in a
Tom> directory tree. I never found the time to do it though.
>>
Ted> I'd like the solution to be implemented in Emacs, not externally.
>>
Tom> Why is that?
>>
>> I like to avoid external dependencies.
LB> It might be a good idea also since inotify is not cross-platform.
LB> (Implementing it in a way that is not cross-platform will tie up
LB> developers resources.)
So I don't waste effort on this, does anyone know of existing inotify
support in Emacs? Are there any packages that can use such support?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-25 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <86iqtyxuqc.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2008-08-21 13:55 ` auto-refresh TAGS file on ChangeLog mod? Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-21 16:31 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-22 15:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-22 15:43 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-25 14:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-25 14:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-25 15:28 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2008-08-25 15:28 ` David House
2008-08-25 15:44 ` Tom Tromey
[not found] ` <ebe43d680808220242g5691f760iff28e8aaeb08408e@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <m3wsi9gj7z.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
2008-08-22 15:50 ` David House
2008-08-22 16:11 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-22 16:26 ` David House
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