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Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate
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Perry E. Metzger |
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Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate |
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Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:04:33 -0400 |
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:40:29 +0100 Michael Albinus
<address@hidden> wrote:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Perhaps Emacs can define some sort of higher level
> > API that each port of Emacs can implement (or not) as part of the
> > system specific code for the platform.
>
> This high level API exist and is called filenotify.el. In Emacs
> 24.4, it supports inotify, gfile (glib), and the MS Windows file
> notification library.
>
> If people on BSD/OS X do not want to use glib, somebody shall write
> kqueue support. But it is said to be a hassle, so I wouldn't
> recommend it.
kqueue is actually quite straightforward to use. It is just a little
"different". I don't know how it would hook in to Emacs's low level
event loop though, I'll have to look at that.
I'm mostly on OS X these days, maybe I'll have a look at doing the
work, though if someone else has an itch to do it, they'll almost
certainly finish before me...
Perry
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- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, (continued)
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/29
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Perry E. Metzger, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Perry E. Metzger, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Michael Albinus, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Michael Albinus, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Perry E. Metzger, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Dima Kogan, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate,
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- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2014/10/29
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, RĂ¼diger Sonderfeld, 2014/10/31
- Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Perry E. Metzger, 2014/10/31
Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/26
Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate, Michael Albinus, 2014/10/26