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Re: OSX FSEvents file watching support


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: OSX FSEvents file watching support
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:18:25 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:14:26 +0200
> 
> > Yes.  But once Tramp has the event description from the remote, how
> > does it inject it into Emacs?
> 
> Tramp doesn't. Injection the event would trigger the call of the
> respective handler from special-event-map. Instead, Tramp calls this
> handler directly.

That only works if (a) Tramp knows in advance what handler to call,
and (b) that handler is callable from Lisp.

I don't think it's reasonable to base a native notification back-end
on these assumptions, they are too shaky, and it's unnecessary in the
first place.



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