Re: Upstreaming filenotify-recursive

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Jethro Kuan <jethrokuan95@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello!

Hi Jethro,

> I'd recently written a package that wraps filenotify somewhat
> transparently, providing a similar API to the built-in filenotify but it
> watches the directory recursively, spawning and destroying watchers as
> appropriately. It was suggested to me that this could be upstreamed to
> Emacs. The code is here:
>
> https://github.com/jethrokuan/filenotify-recursive

Thanks!

> I don't mind doing the work in getting this upstreamed, but I have a few
> concerns. Because of how filenotify works, filenotify-recursive uses own
> its global variables to keep track of the descriptors. It's best to
> think of a way to merge this functionality into filenotify.el itself,
> but I can't think of a good way right now. I'm open to any thoughts and
> suggestions here.

I'll have a look on this next days, as time permits. Just to let you know.

> Jethro

Best regards, Michael.