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: 25 Mar 2004 12:01:24 -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> <8011-Fri19Mar2004164602+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200403210326.i2L3QpF29260@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403220244.i2M2ikR07506@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403221939.i2MJd8116508@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <8296-Tue23Mar2004214028+0200-eliz@elta.co NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080239480 1036 80.91.224.253 (25 Mar 2004 18:31:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:31:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 19:31:11 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 1B6ZdH-0001fF-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6ZdH-0006m7-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:31:11 +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 1B6YiZ-0006FW-Qa for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:32:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Ygd-0005oe-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Yg1-0005fP-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.165] (helo=simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6YMe-00010I-2D; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from empanada.local ([67.68.218.170]) by simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040325170124.BPUB13427.simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.local>; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:01:24 -0500 Original-Received: by empanada.local (Postfix, from userid 502) id DC7711427C3; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:01:24 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:20921 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20921 > I was talking about the assumption that the directory's time stamp > changes whenever files are created or removed in that directory. Oh, I see. I should have figured that out. > A more portable way of building a feature that needs to know when > directory contents change would be to define a system-specific > function/macro that would return an indication of that, and leave its > implementation to platform-specific files. In principle that may be true. But for now I think it's perfectly fine to just hardcode the few different ways we know of in dired-stale-buffer-p. Stefan