Re: filenotify.el

["Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>]

Hello,

I've written a new "Auto Update" module for magit using  the new API: 
https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/721

Best regards,
Rüdiger

On Tuesday 25 June 2013 14:02:38 Michael Albinus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have written filenotify.el, which is intended as upper layer for
> gfilenotify.c, inotify.c and w32notify.c. This is a simplified
> interface, which offers just file change or file attribute change
> notifications. I believe this is sufficient for the use-cases in Emacs;
> if more fine granular notifications are needed, one could still use one
> of the low-level packages.
> 
> The package is appended, together with needed changes in subr.el and
> autorevert.el. I've tested it with gfilenotify and inotify; the tests
> for w32notify I cannot perform as usual. There are still some changes
> needed, but basic functionality shall be available.
> 
> Beside further tests and bug fixing, I plan to write ert tests as well
> as a Tramp file name handler. Documentation is also lacking. But these
> steps could be applied later, once there is an agreement about the
> interface.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Best regards, Michael.