From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: autorevert.el
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:48:59 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403190448.i2J4mxQ12087@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2427-Tue16Mar2004214034+0200-eliz@elta.co.il>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Both of these alternatives sound wrong to me. I think on Windows
Emacs should listen to the special message sent by the OS whenever the
contents of some directory changes. I believe this is how the Windows
Explorer and other programs know when to refresh their views of files
in a directory.
I do not know anything about non-POSIX operating systems and hence
will not be able to do this myself. I also do not have access to
computers running these operating systems with CVS Emacs installed, so
I could not even check my code, if I were able to write it. To avoid
misunderstanding, I am _not_ refusing to do it for ideological
reasons, I just am unable to do it. I could make things convenient
for anybody wanting to do it, in particular there would be no
necessity for that person to know anything about auto-revert.el.
I have not yet completely decided on how to do things, but for the
moment it seems that there might be a `buffer-stale-function' or such
(concrete name still undecided), as Stefan suggested. In that case,
one would have the choice between adapting the POSIX function, or
giving buffer-stale-function an operating system specific value.
Note that I am not creating a portability problem, I am inheriting a
portability problem from dired. Any problem that would occur for
auto-revert already occurs now in as far as the "Directory has changed
on disk; type g to update Dired" messages dired prints are concerned.
Any solution to the auto-revert portability problem would also be a
solution to that current portability problem. If there is no current
portability problem, then there will be no auto-revert portability
problem either. (I can not check. In particular, it really would be
hard for me to solve a problem without even being able to check
whether the problem really occurs.)
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-19 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 23:19 autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-03 13:24 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-04 5:08 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-04 20:43 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-05 4:00 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-13 3:10 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-13 11:29 ` autorevert.el Kai Grossjohann
2004-03-14 23:15 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 0:08 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15 2:58 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 7:04 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-16 4:56 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-16 19:40 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-19 4:48 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2004-03-19 6:06 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-21 2:42 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-23 15:26 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 4:20 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-24 4:25 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-21 4:19 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-19 10:19 ` autorevert.el Kim F. Storm
2004-03-19 14:46 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 3:26 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-21 6:46 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 2:44 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-22 6:51 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 19:39 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-23 19:40 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-23 20:09 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 4:10 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-24 6:58 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-24 18:03 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 6:56 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-25 17:01 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 18:56 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 6:20 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 6:49 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 7:21 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 19:47 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-22 16:23 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-23 4:24 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 19:22 ` autorevert.el Richard Stallman
2004-03-16 5:06 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-05 4:25 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-05 5:55 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-04 5:34 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
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