From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: joakim@verona.se
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org,
antoine.levitt@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Emacs inotify support?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:42:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d45uzl60.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tyz6ycs2.fsf@verona.se>
> From: joakim@verona.se
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, antoine.levitt@gmail.com,
> lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:28:45 +0200
>
> One way to look at it is auto-revert-mode for directories visited with
> dired. Something other than Emacs is changing the contents of a
> directory and I would like dired to notice. This can be achieved in a
> number of ways, but the way I had in mind is an inotify handler in
> Emacs, that would insert some kind of event in the event stream, so one
> could bind a handler to it. This should be portable across platforms
> with different filesystem notification schemes, and consistent with
> Emacs behavior in general.
I can hardly imagine that using inotify is more portable than looking
at the time stamp of the directory (which works even on Windows, if
you have NTFS).
But maybe I didn't understand what you were trying to say.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 20:34 Emacs inotify support? joakim
2009-09-11 21:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-11 22:54 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-11 23:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-12 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 16:36 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-12 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 17:26 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-12 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 20:04 ` Antoine Levitt
2009-09-12 21:24 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 17:28 ` joakim
2009-09-13 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-09-13 22:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-14 5:47 ` joakim
2009-09-14 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 2:27 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-13 9:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-12 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 7:39 ` Paul R
2009-09-15 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-17 15:12 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-18 9:49 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-18 12:10 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-18 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-18 18:38 ` joakim
2009-09-21 21:45 ` Dired auto-revert (was: Emacs inotify support?) Juri Linkov
2009-09-21 22:29 ` Drew Adams
2009-09-23 9:05 ` Dired auto-revert Juri Linkov
2009-12-04 0:11 ` Proced revert (Re: Dired auto-revert) Juri Linkov
2009-12-04 2:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 22:21 ` Roland Winkler
2009-12-04 0:09 ` Dired auto-revert Juri Linkov
2009-12-04 2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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