From: "Per Starbäck" <per.starback@gmail.com>
To: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Clarification about auto-revert-mode and inotify
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:36:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADkQgvu7MHq7ky0ELzOrVNVMFPYXN_3AmeF_NguXZuz0pvayUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838uk8akqd.fsf@gnu.org>
>> If so, why is the default 5 seconds and not 0.01 seconds?
>
> Because there's no real reason to revert buffers more frequently than
> that. But if you want, you can.
When I first tested auto-revert-mode I assumed it was broken since
nothing happened.
The original poster wasn't sure if the current behaviour was a bug or
not. Emacs is not
fulfilling user expectations for an auto revert mode.
No real reason? I have instead hard to think of a reason why anyone
would like a five
second delay for anything you'd use auto revert mode for. I can
imagine that someone
sometimes would like a minimum time between updates, if there's reason to
see what happens, step by step, but have much harder to think of a reason why
anyone would like such a long delay before the first update. I don't
rule out that there
might be such a reason in some rare case, but still, if not for
performance issues,
the default should clearly be "immediate" (by human standards) update.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-22 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-21 7:00 Clarification about auto-revert-mode and inotify Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-21 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-21 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-21 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 7:02 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 17:59 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 18:59 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 19:39 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 20:29 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-22 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 5:36 ` Per Starbäck [this message]
2014-10-22 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 19:08 ` Per Starbäck
2014-10-22 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 10:13 ` Florian Weimer
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2014-10-21 6:01 Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 5:03 Dima Kogan
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