From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support. Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:26:58 -0500 Message-ID: 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 1357590430 9340 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2013 20:27:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:27:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, Eli Zaretskii , sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 21:27:26 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 1TsJI5-0003bu-Ml for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:27:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJHq-00021o-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:27:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJHm-0001sW-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJHl-0002Ub-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:51410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsJHk-0002UV-VK; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r07KQwuk025376; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 43BD4B4368; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:26:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87lic5m18t.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:00:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4454=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4454> : streams <887392> : uri <1313333> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:156124 Archived-At: >>> 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. 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. Stefan