From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <oscarfv@telefonica.net>
Cc: 14140@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14140: 24.3.50; auto-revert-mode does not revert upon invocation
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:45:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txnmnnio.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9peqidb.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:08:00 +0200")
Óscar Fuentes <oscarfv@telefonica.net> writes:
Hi Óscar,
> In a shell:
> $ echo hello > foo
> $ emacs -Q foo &
> $ echo bye > foo
>
> In Emacs:
> M-x auto-revert-mode
>
> <the buffer keeps showing "hello">
>
> In the past, after executing auto-revert-mode the buffer was reverted to
> the file's current contents. Nowadays, the buffer keeps showing the
> file's old contents until the file is modified again.
>
> This is obviously a bug because an unmodified buffer with
> auto-revert-mode enabled is supposed to show the current contents of its
> associated buffer.
auto-revert-mode uses file notifications now. In your scenario, no
notification reaches Emacs.
Likely, when *enabling* auto-revert-mode, it shall be checked whether
something has to be reverted initially. Will see (but not tonight,
rather tomorrow or over the weekend).
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-04 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 18:08 bug#14140: 24.3.50; auto-revert-mode does not revert upon invocation Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-04 18:45 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2013-04-04 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 19:10 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-04 19:22 ` Michael Albinus
2013-04-05 10:22 ` Michael Albinus
2013-04-05 10:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-05 10:48 ` Michael Albinus
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