Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Jan D.]

Mike Mattie skrev 2011-03-09 07:03:

> I have thought alot about your proposal for automatic loading so that it
> is not necessary to edit anything, just drop a file in. There is some
> real appeal for that kind of a feature ... but it is hard to implement.
>
> By hard to implement I mean really hard. Just because a file is opened
> and written to, it is not necessarily ready to load. I hit C-x s alot
> when tweaking files ...
>
> Even if I hacked some kind of inotify support to watch a directory for
> IO activity I would never know when to actually load it.
>
> If you can somehow signal when a collection is ready for re-scanning
> I can see an implementation ...

It can't be hard, there are tons of programs that already have this 
feature.  Some have inotify style loading, other just load at startup. 
I would expect load at startup and then with a command (M-x 
load-load-dir or some such).

        Jan D.