Re: filenotify.el

[Michael Albinus]

Davis Herring <address@hidden> writes:

> An addendum to my own agitation: if there's a way to prevent gfilenotify
> from polling (or if we add Lisp polling to filenotify.el in the future),
> `file-notify-add-watch' could benefit from a don't-poll flag, either as
> an additional argument or as a new accepted symbol in FLAGS.

I'll check. There is the macro G_IS_POLL_FILE_MONITOR in gio. Maybe it
can be used to implement such a flag in gfilenotify.c.

However, I would rather implement it as a defcustom than as additional
argument to file-notify-add-watch. Then you could decide yourself,
whether you want polling, or not.

> Davis

Best regards, Michael.