From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support. Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:57:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83haqc9phy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2181827.T3JxG88qQt@descartes> <83lifoa7hr.fsf@gnu.org> <87obkkcu92.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349238653 25032 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2012 04:30:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:30:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 06:30:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJGbK-0003ea-FM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:30:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG5M-0000jd-CQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG5J-0000jV-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG5I-0002iD-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:57:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:32953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJG5H-0002i1-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBA00F00TF32U00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:57:19 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBA00EU8TNIW140@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:57:19 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87obkkcu92.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153977 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:46:33 +0200 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > Btw, what are Emacs use cases for using this kind of feature? >=20 > Apart from those mentioned on the original message (dired or magit'= s (or > vc-dir) status view) I'll like to mention auto-revert-mode. All those need either a single file to be watched or don't need any details about what exactly changed (dired). That's a far cry from what's being proposed. > You are leaving this case to extremes. Emacs already allows you to = do > very silly things. Let's not throw out useful features simply becau= se > they might be abused. I didn't suggest to throw away anything. I suggested to think about the API we provide, so that it could be simpler and safer. Abuse has nothing to do with naivette.