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Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support.
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support. |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:26:58 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> 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.
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.
Stefan