How to update a file

How to update a file

[billy]

I know if I do the C-x C-f and give it the same name as the file I
already have opened it will ask me if I want to update.  Is there a way
I can just tell emacs to update the file that is my focus?

Re: How to update a file

[Maarten Bergvelt]

In article <1142335993.417659.34910@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
billy 
wrote:

> I know if I do the C-x C-f and give it the same name as the file I
> already have opened it will ask me if I want to update.  Is there a way
> I can just tell emacs to update the file that is my focus?

C-c C-f does not behave for me that way: I don't get asked
anything. What do you mean update? Maybe you have configured C-x C-f
in a strange way: check with C-h k.

-- 
Maarten Bergvelt		

Re: How to update a file

[billy]

by update I mean that I have the file open for viewing/editing.
In a shell I execute a script that recreates the file.  It changes, but
if I dont reopen the file again I do not see the new version.

Re: How to update a file

[Gordon Beaton]

On 14 Mar 2006 07:50:06 -0800, billy wrote:
> by update I mean that I have the file open for viewing/editing.
> In a shell I execute a script that recreates the file.  It changes, but
> if I dont reopen the file again I do not see the new version.

M-x revert-buffer
or 
C-x C-v <enter>

I use the following with find-alternate-file so I don't have to hunt
for my position in the file afterward re-visiting it:

(defadvice find-alternate-file (around restore-point activate)
  "Restore current position when re-visiting same file"
  (let ((saved-point (point))
        (saved-window-start (window-start))
        (saved-filename buffer-file-name))
    ad-do-it
    (if (equal saved-filename buffer-file-name)
        (progn (goto-char saved-point)
               (set-window-start (selected-window) saved-window-start)))))

(suggestions for improvements are welcome)

/gordon

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Re: How to update a file

[Mathias Dahl]

Gordon Beaton <n.o.t@for.email> writes:

> M-x revert-buffer
> or 
> C-x C-v <enter>

Or enable auto-revert-mode.

/Mathias