Subject: bug#20299: 25.0.50; File notification is not working

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:27:42 +0200

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

> Sean McAfee <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:
>>> Here you must apply "M-x auto-revert-mode".
>>
>> Ah, I didn't realize this was necessary.  I assumed Emacs would receive
>> file notification events for all open files if it was built with that
>> capability, since it seems an inexpensive enough operation.
>
> Inexpensive if you have native support like inotify. If you use glib,
> for example, it might be necessary to poll, which is more heavy.

PS: If you want to run all buffers in auto-revert-mode per default, you
could apply "M-x global-auto-revert-mode".

>> Thanks for the help!

Bst regards, Michael.