From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: inotify for emacs Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:02:43 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <8762u3bwws.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> References: <6a80fd51-f4e2-426c-a82a-82234e45249b@29g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294216857 18220 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 08:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 09:40:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaOvM-0000HR-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaOvK-0003jZ-UB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:40:51 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/U+qKetVurwJOMouHyqVn5WaPXI= Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a321c225.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=2aIbKJoa2DBOObP71A_HVDL?0kYOcDh@J7^o:UA4R?cE[OgPl_:lSHE]G; 2>V^?kWCCAkl5c@XgkNZ?XEL1?E\DA6Rjaab`@WPA Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184006 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78207 Archived-At: rusi writes: > Is there anything like inotify for emacs? Not directly AFAIK. However, emacs 24 does have support for interfacing with dbus and there are dbus file/directory watcher services that use inotify, so you may be able to do something via dbus. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au