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From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: why 4 inotfy events when saving a file?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:14:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130311231417.GB26775@boo.workgroup> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ehfmx5xz.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi Eli, Emacs users and developers,
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [11. Mar. 2013]:
>> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:44:42 +0100
>> From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
>> 
>> saving a file from Emacs gives 4 inotify events:
[...]
>> why are there so many events?
> 
> Because that's what Emacs does when it saves the file, first to the
> old version, then to the new.  Take a look at the implementation of
> write-region, which is the primitive used by save-buffer to write the
> buffer to its file, you will see all those operations there.

Thanks (also to Barry Margolin) for the explanation.  I now
search for a after-file-save-hook.  But I didn't find it.  Is
there some such thing?


Ciao, Gregor
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-11 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-10 21:44 why 4 inotfy events when saving a file? Gregor Zattler
2013-03-10 22:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-11 23:14   ` Gregor Zattler [this message]
2013-03-12  3:07     ` William Gardella
     [not found]   ` <mailman.21890.1363043748.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-12  2:21     ` B. T. Raven
     [not found] <mailman.21821.1362951956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-11  0:59 ` Barry Margolin

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