Re: watching files

[Andreas Seik <andreas_neu@gmxpro.de>]

Anselm Helbig wrote:

Hallo Anselm,

Thank You for your help, it seems that emacs is missing an important
feature. When you switch on auto-revert-mode emacs will overwrite unchanged
buffers without notice, and does nothing with changed buffers when the
correspondig file changes.
An interactive mode seems to be missing :-(

viele Grüße
Andreas

>> I would like to habe emacs check, when ever i reopen a buffer, if the
>> correspondig file on disk has changed meanwile. Emacs shold ask me, if i
>> want to relode the newer version.
>> I thik this feater existsts, but i can't find the switch.
> 
> hallo andreas,
> 
> emacs checks if there have been changes to the file you are editing
> when you try to save it. that's what rgb meant.
> 
> there's a minor mode you can active, `auto-revert-mode', which checks
> in certain intervals if the file you are editing changed and then
> loads the new version. i'm not sure if it asks you when there is a
> conflict, i remember that i lost some changes i did when i was still
> using it. at least there were problems when you're working on a remote
> server which is a little out of sync with your system clock (a few
> seconds may be trouble enough if you save often).
> 
> to try it for all buffers now, drop this into your .emacs:
> 
> (global-auto-revert-mode 1)
> 
> grüße,
> 
> anselm