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#75626
31.0.50; Dired misses or double-processes files when auto-revert-mode is enabled
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Reported by: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:43:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 31.0.50
Done: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #169 received at 75626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 75626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:05:20 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> > And, btw, if we want this to be useful outside of Dired, we need to
> >> > make this variable public, not internal. That is, call it
> >> > dired-inhibit-auto-revert.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I can't follow. Why should a variable named dired-* be used
> >> outside of dired?
> >
> > Not outside of dired, outside of dired.el. There are two other
> > dired-*.el files which might want to do that for some reason.
>
> Would you get a warning when dired--inhibit-auto-revert defined in
> dired.el was used in dired-aux.el or what is the problem? I've though
> "--" variables are only private by convention, and usually not private
> to a file but to a package.
>
> > Anyway, that other places could want to use this was not my
> > suggestion, it was yours, AFAIR.
>
> No, Michael's.
>
> Anyway, after thinking a bit more about it: we could also have an even
> more general inhibit-auto-revert in autorevert.el and bind that in the
> expansion of dired-map-over-marks. Then auto-revert-handler would test
> inhibit-auto-revert even before consulting the buffer-stale-function.
Yes, I think this is even better, thanks.
But let's first wait for Michael Albinus (CC'ed) to chime in, in case
he has comments or objections.
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