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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