From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support. Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:44:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87lic4m849.fsf@gmx.de> References: <6218185.ViukoKRdFp@descartes> <1604303.YKOVcvQH0F@descartes> <8738zd6n1t.fsf@gmx.de> <83ip899fd7.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5h557cx.fsf@gmx.de> <83fw3d9elh.fsf@gnu.org> <87pq2h5660.fsf@gmx.de> <83ehix9bcs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hamtb52x.fsf@gmx.de> <83hamt7zqi.fsf@gnu.org> <87lic5m18t.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357631093 17937 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2013 07:44:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 07:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, Eli Zaretskii , sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 08:45:09 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 1TsTrx-0001jv-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:45:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsTrh-0007sQ-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:44:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsTre-0007sL-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:44:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsTrc-00075L-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:51317) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsTrc-000756-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:44:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.1]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MK7dj-1TtIoF33TB-001PcM for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:44:46 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Jan 2013 07:44:46 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB97DA.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.151.218] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 08 Jan 2013 08:44:46 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18LdQFGpeML1V4spk9rS9UWyU2YQ5VrmpMmKGtw+m prbWRurg/Osu7a In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:26:58 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.18 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:156134 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> Is there any progress on this? Any attempt of a unified interface? >>> Not that I'm aware of, no. OTOH, I haven't seen any attempts to use >>> the feature in any Lisp package, either. Maybe we just don't need it ;-) >> It might be too early judging it. And people might wait for a stable API ... > > I don't see how we can develop a good API without first seeing the > feature in use. Maybe we shall mark this change as experimental in NEWS then? And it could also be useful to install Tramp's `inotify-add-watch' handler? > So someone should try and use the existing code for auto-revert and > dired, to get a good idea of how it plays out. And then we can abstract > out the differences into a sane API. Hmm. If time permits, I'll check what I could do. But likely I'm not able to implement something for `w32notify-*'; I don't run MS Windows locally. > Stefan Best regards, Michael.