From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion for autorevert.el Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:49:01 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87zna6l1kn.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080201433 28734 80.91.224.253 (25 Mar 2004 07:57:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 08:57:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6Pji-000858-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:57:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6Pji-0002Ci-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:57:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6PiN-0006n5-1s for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Ph5-0006M8-24 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6PgU-0006Ck-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:54:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6PgU-0006CX-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B6Pbp-0007YV-U5; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:49:01 -0500 Original-To: Eric Hanchrow In-reply-to: <87zna6l1kn.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> (message from Eric Hanchrow on Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:14:16 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20878 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20878 I often use `autorevert' to do what `tail' does -- namely, watch the end of a constantly-growing file. However, the current code doesn't make that easy, because point never moves. So here's an idea for keeping point at the end of the buffer. It would be consistent with the rest of Emacs to keep point at the end if it was previously at the end. Please do it that way, rather than introducing an option.