Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support.

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> Is there any progress on this? Any attempt of a unified interface?
>>> Not that I'm aware of, no.  OTOH, I haven't seen any attempts to use
>>> the feature in any Lisp package, either.  Maybe we just don't need it ;-)
>> It might be too early judging it. And people might wait for a stable API ...
>
> I don't see how we can develop a good API without first seeing the
> feature in use.

Maybe we shall mark this change as experimental in NEWS then? And it
could also be useful to install Tramp's `inotify-add-watch' handler?

> So someone should try and use the existing code for auto-revert and
> dired, to get a good idea of how it plays out.  And then we can abstract
> out the differences into a sane API.

Hmm. If time permits, I'll check what I could do. But likely I'm not
able to implement something for `w32notify-*'; I don't run MS Windows
locally.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.