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From: Andreas Seik <andreas_neu@gmxpro.de>
Subject: Re: watching files
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:05:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438245e7$0$3552$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y83hn6eh.fsf@cisco.com

John Russell wrote:
> in all my emacs experience, every time a file is edited outside of emacs
> as soon as I type any key in that files buffer in emacs I am asked if
> I want to revert the file because the contents have changed on disk.
> 
> This does not happen for you?  It sounds like just what you want.
> John

Hello John,
No it does not happen for me. I'm using GNU Emacs v 21.3 on SUSE Linux.
I read the info files of emacs and found something about reverting, but not
the behavior your describe.
I switched on global-auto-revert-mode but that mode is not interactive.

Greetings,
Christoph

      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-18 12:55 watching files Andreas Seik
2005-11-18 18:58 ` rgb
2005-11-19 13:55 ` Anselm Helbig
2005-11-20 20:10   ` Andreas Seik
2005-11-21 19:32     ` John Russell
2005-11-21 22:05       ` Andreas Seik [this message]

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