From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
Subject: Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:40:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fve54fsi.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141030131018.00832b04@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:10:18 -0400")
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> Perhaps Emacs can define some sort of higher level
> API that each port of Emacs can implement (or not) as part of the
> system specific code for the platform.
This high level API exist and is called filenotify.el. In Emacs 24.4, it
supports inotify, gfile (glib), and the MS Windows file notification
library.
If people on BSD/OS X do not want to use glib, somebody shall write
kqueue support. But it is said to be a hassle, so I wouldn't recommend
it.
> Perry
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-25 20:17 gfile-based file notifications are not immediate Dima Kogan
2014-10-26 7:55 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-26 13:12 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-28 21:33 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-10-29 1:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 2:23 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-29 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 12:03 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-29 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:11 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-29 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 16:28 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-29 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 15:16 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 17:10 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 17:40 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2014-10-30 18:04 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 18:11 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-30 19:21 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 19:39 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-30 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:00 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-10-30 19:12 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-10-30 20:32 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-10-31 21:28 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-11-02 14:15 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-11-02 15:50 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-26 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-26 17:07 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-26 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-26 16:41 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-28 0:32 ` Dima Kogan
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