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bug#20299: 25.0.50; File notification is not working
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#20299: 25.0.50; File notification is not working |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:25:30 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:
[Pls keep the Cc for the archives]
> Anyway, here's what I just did:
>
> * Started Emacs with "emacs -Q"
> * (require 'filenotify)
> * (require 'trace)
> * Evaluated your (dolist ...) expression from above
> * (require 'auto-revert)
Not needed.
> * Visit a file
Here you must apply "M-x auto-revert-mode".
> * Append to the file by executing a shell command
> * Evaluated (auto-revert-handler)
>
> The file was not reverted, and the complete list of open buffers at
> that time were foo.txt (visiting my test file), *scratch*, *Messages*,
> *Shell Command Output*, and *Backtrace*. Nothing trace-related that I
> can see. It appears that none of the file-notify-* functions are ever
> called, even though I built Emacs with the -
> -with-file-notification=inotify configuration switch.
>
> --Sean
Best regards, Michael.