From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autorevert.el Date: 19 Mar 2004 01:06:53 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403022319.i22NJbG01259@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403040508.i2458W811551@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403050400.i2540VQ21715@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403130310.i2D3A8w28676@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403150008.i2F083x04382@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403160456.i2G4uVL14097@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2427-Tue16Mar2004214034+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200403190448.i2J4mxQ12087@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079676601 19699 80.91.224.253 (19 Mar 2004 06:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 06:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 07:09:54 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 1B4DCc-0003Av-00 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:09:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4DCb-0005h2-00 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:09:54 +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 1B4DBB-0001kv-1j for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:08:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4DAd-0001WC-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4D9o-0000S0-TH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:07:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B4D9n-0000P4-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:06:59 -0500 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B6820B2F; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:06:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 494668C8E4; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:06:53 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200403190448.i2J4mxQ12087@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-0.908, requis 5, BAYES_10 -0.91) 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:20597 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20597 > Both of these alternatives sound wrong to me. I think on Windows > Emacs should listen to the special message sent by the OS whenever the > contents of some directory changes. I believe this is how the Windows > Explorer and other programs know when to refresh their views of files > in a directory. Currently there's no way to do it in elisp and the problem happens as much for dired than for auto-revert, so it's really not specific to auto-revert. > I do not know anything about non-POSIX operating systems and hence > will not be able to do this myself. I also do not have access to Don't worry about it. Please install your autorevert-stale-function (or whatever the name) patch as soon as it's ready. All it has to do is to get rid of the current autorevert-dired horror. Stefan