From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autorevert.el Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:40:35 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <2427-Tue16Mar2004214034+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200403022319.i22NJbG01259@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403040508.i2458W811551@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403050400.i2540VQ21715@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403130310.i2D3A8w28676@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403150008.i2F083x04382@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403160456.i2G4uVL14097@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079525620 24663 80.91.224.253 (17 Mar 2004 12:13:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 13:13:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3ZvS-0003k5-00 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:13:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3ZvS-00077y-00 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:13:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3ZuX-0005hB-EA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3Zob-0004Pc-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:06:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3Zo3-0004Kz-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3ZnO-0004Cv-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.157.53]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id CPL00969; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:42:49 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200403160456.i2G4uVL14097@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:56:31 -0600 (CST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20547 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20547 > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:56:31 -0600 (CST) > From: Luc Teirlinck > > What this could mean is that autoreverting of dired buffers may not > work on MS-Windows or maybe that, on MS-windows, one could just > automatically autorevert dired buffers every auto-revert-interval > seconds, assuming one has a reasonably fast computer (admittedly a > very suboptimal solution). 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.