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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remote display-time-mail-file
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:06:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp7va09m.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpqwbbgap.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:00:27 +0200")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> Indeed, but short of using some inotify-like thingy, Emacs has no way to
> know when a file is modified by some other program, so the best it can
> do is to say that it will be out of sync at worst up to N seconds.

A while ago, I was playing with the idea to install an inotify listener
on the remote host. I gave it up, because I haven't found a reasonable
filter which files shall be reported as being modified.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-18  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16 18:38 Remote display-time-mail-file Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-16 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-16 21:01   ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-17 11:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-17 13:11       ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-17 15:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 20:26           ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-17 20:59             ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-17 21:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18  6:47                 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-18  9:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18  9:06                   ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2010-09-18  9:08                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 10:49                     ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 13:07                     ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 13:29                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-30 14:01                         ` Michael Albinus

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