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Re: Remove all existing file notification watches from Emacs
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
Re: Remove all existing file notification watches from Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Oct 2021 16:21:38 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
Hi Stefan,
> I mean, using this instead of restarting Emacs may work sometimes, but
> it can have undesirable (and hard to predict, for the end user) side
> effects since packages have had their watches killed from under them.
Like this?
(defun file-notify-rm-all-watches ()
"Remove all existing file notification watches from Emacs."
(interactive)
(maphash
(lambda (key _value)
(file-notify-rm-watch key))
file-notify-descriptors))
> So it's OK to use when the alternative is to kill Emacs, but it should
> come with some warnings
Do you want a confirmation à la "Are you really really sure?"
> (in a pessimistic scenario I can see some blog
> mentioning this command alongside the usual "set your GC threshold super
> high" and a few other things, in the toolbox of "make your Emacs more
> faster").
Such blogs will always happen ...
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
Re: Remove all existing file notification watches from Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/16