Re: File watch support in autorevert.el

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> As a proof of concept, I have installed a patch in autorevert.el
>> implementing file watches.  This shall work for `auto-revert-mode' and
>> `global-auto-revert-mode' for buffers visiting files.
>> `auto-revert-tail-mode' is not supported (yet).
>
> Thanks, that sounds like a very good start.  But please make it
> optional, for those users who want to use auto-revert-mode on files
> accessed over NFS and other protocols where inotify doesn't work.

Nice. One of the first thing I suggested long ago while trying to get
file watching into Emacs ;-)