From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: paul.r.ml@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs inotify support?
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:49:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Moa62-000256-2J@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqfhbo6u.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:12:09 +0300)
> What happens if the file whose line point is on gets renamed? That
> seems like a mergeable difference, but you might be a bit surprised to
> see the line move to some other position in the buffer.
Most file managers automatically update changed files and that
doesn't surprise users.
The precise details of display format can have a big effect on whether
the update bothers users, and how much.
Ultimately, the only way to judge whether it bothers users too much
is to try it. But we should POLL THE USERS before enabling it by default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-18 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 20:34 Emacs inotify support? joakim
2009-09-11 21:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-11 22:54 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-11 23:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-12 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 16:36 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-12 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 17:26 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-12 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 20:04 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-12 21:24 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 17:28 ` joakim
2009-09-13 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-13 22:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-14 5:47 ` joakim
2009-09-14 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 2:27 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-13 9:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-12 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 7:39 ` Paul R
2009-09-15 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-17 15:12 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-18 9:49 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2009-09-18 12:10 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-18 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-18 18:38 ` joakim
2009-09-21 21:45 ` Dired auto-revert (was: Emacs inotify support?) Juri Linkov
2009-09-21 22:29 ` Drew Adams
2009-09-23 9:05 ` Dired auto-revert Juri Linkov
2009-12-04 0:11 ` Proced revert (Re: Dired auto-revert) Juri Linkov
2009-12-04 2:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 22:21 ` Roland Winkler
2009-12-04 0:09 ` Dired auto-revert Juri Linkov
2009-12-04 2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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