From: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reload modified files in buffer
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:09:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1oc8k8099.fsf@ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4D09FB2D.5000809@gmail.com
Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@gmail.com> writes:
>
> it's good to know that auto-revert mode will not revert a modify
> buffer. however afaik Emacs will not let you save a modified buffer if
> the file has changed.
>
> i like Peter's idea of Emacs having the ability to diff-merge a
> conflict when you've modified a buffer and the file has changed.
>
> Emacs should be smart enough to auto-reload a buffer if the file has
> changed and the buffer has not been edited, this would be a welcomed
> enhancement =)
Try to enable globally auto-revert-mode and keep 200 buffers open on a
slow machine, you'll understand why is not a default ;)
I think is a good idea to be off by default, after all why do you need
to revert buffers so often?
For me it only happens when I push/pull with some revision control
systems...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1.1292309755.5276.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-14 7:12 ` reload modified files in buffer Sven Joachim
2010-12-15 15:42 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-12-15 19:14 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-12-15 19:26 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-12-16 0:39 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-16 11:42 ` Rajinder Yadav
2010-12-16 16:32 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-12-16 18:08 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-17 23:09 ` Andrea Crotti [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.9.1292427789.4561.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-15 16:04 ` Sven Joachim
2010-12-14 6:55 Rajinder Yadav
2010-12-14 7:57 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-14 9:28 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-12-14 15:19 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-12-15 15:43 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-15 16:58 ` Andrea Crotti
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