From: John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: watching files
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:32:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y83hn6eh.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4380d95a$0$24985$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de
Andreas Seik <andreas_neu@gmxpro.de> writes:
> Anselm Helbig wrote:
>
> Hallo Anselm,
>
> Thank You for your help, it seems that emacs is missing an important
> feature. When you switch on auto-revert-mode emacs will overwrite unchanged
> buffers without notice, and does nothing with changed buffers when the
> correspondig file changes.
> An interactive mode seems to be missing :-(
in all my emacs experience, every time a file is edited outside of emacs
as soon as I type any key in that files buffer in emacs I am asked if
I want to revert the file because the contents have changed on disk.
This does not happen for you? It sounds like just what you want.
John
>
> viele Grüße
> Andreas
>
>>> I would like to habe emacs check, when ever i reopen a buffer, if the
>>> correspondig file on disk has changed meanwile. Emacs shold ask me, if i
>>> want to relode the newer version.
>>> I thik this feater existsts, but i can't find the switch.
>>
>> hallo andreas,
>>
>> emacs checks if there have been changes to the file you are editing
>> when you try to save it. that's what rgb meant.
>>
>> there's a minor mode you can active, `auto-revert-mode', which checks
>> in certain intervals if the file you are editing changed and then
>> loads the new version. i'm not sure if it asks you when there is a
>> conflict, i remember that i lost some changes i did when i was still
>> using it. at least there were problems when you're working on a remote
>> server which is a little out of sync with your system clock (a few
>> seconds may be trouble enough if you save often).
>>
>> to try it for all buffers now, drop this into your .emacs:
>>
>> (global-auto-revert-mode 1)
>>
>> grüße,
>>
>> anselm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 12:55 watching files Andreas Seik
2005-11-18 18:58 ` rgb
2005-11-19 13:55 ` Anselm Helbig
2005-11-20 20:10 ` Andreas Seik
2005-11-21 19:32 ` John Russell [this message]
2005-11-21 22:05 ` Andreas Seik
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