The variable global-auto-revert-ignore-modes is not working anymore (it was working with Emacs 26.3). I've fixed the bug by removing the apostrophe character of the following line (file: autorevert.el, function: auto-revert--global-add-current-buffer): (not (memq 'major-mode global-auto-revert-ignore-modes)) Steps to reproduce: (progn (require 'autorevert) (setq global-auto-revert-ignore-modes (list 'Buffer-menu-mode)) (setq global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers t) (global-auto-revert-mode t) (list-buffers)) In GNU Emacs 27.0.91 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-07-04 built on gustavo-Lenovo-ideapad-330-15IKB Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000 System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. # Mark set Making completion list... Scanning for dabbrevs...done Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. Configured using: 'configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-modules --with-sound=yes --with-file-notification=yes --with-mailutils --with-cairo' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: pt_BR.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: global-auto-revert-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr pp cl-print cl-extra thingatpt help-fns radix-tree help-mode dabbrev emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils autorevert filenotify cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 54950 31553) (symbols 48 6444 2) (strings 32 19050 1937) (string-bytes 1 575717) (vectors 16 10323) (vector-slots 8 135740 9174) (floats 8 35 22) (intervals 56 354 130) (buffers 1000 16))