GNU bug report logs - #14140
24.3.50; auto-revert-mode does not revert upon invocation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Óscar Fuentes <oscarfv <at> telefonica.net>

Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:37:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Óscar Fuentes <oscarfv <at> telefonica.net>
Cc: 14140 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14140: 24.3.50; auto-revert-mode does not revert upon invocation
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:45:56 +0300

> From: Óscar Fuentes <oscarfv <at> telefonica.net>
> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:08:00 +0200
> 
> In a shell:
> $ echo hello > foo
> $ emacs -Q foo &
> $ echo bye > foo
> 
> In Emacs:
> M-x auto-revert-mode
> 
> <the buffer keeps showing "hello">
> 
> In the past, after executing auto-revert-mode the buffer was reverted to
> the file's current contents. Nowadays, the buffer keeps showing the
> file's old contents until the file is modified again.

Set auto-revert-use-notify to a nil value before turning on
auto-revert-mode, and the problem goes away (at least for me it did).
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 54 days ago.

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