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25.0.50; File notification is not working

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Sean McAfee <eefacm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20299: 25.0.50; File notification is not working
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:27:42 +0200

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

> Sean McAfee <eefacm <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> 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.

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