Re: [O] external process modifying buffers

[Nick Dokos]

Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks! That makes it much cleaner. My setup is now reduced to this:
> 
> (setq global-auto-revert-mode t)
> (run-at-time "2 minutes" 600 '(lambda () (shell-command "ical2org>iCal.org")))
> 
> With full paths to the ical2org binary and the iCal.org file.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    -k.
> 

Two points:

o the doc says 

,----
| Setting this variable directly does not take effect;
| either customize it (see the info node `Easy Customization')
| or call the function `global-auto-revert-mode'.
`----

o I've pointed out some possible gotcha's with setting
  global-auto-revert-mode before - see
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/58053.

Nick

> 
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Charles Philip Chan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > Hi Ken:
> >
> >> Right now I'm running ical2org via cron and re-generating iCal.org
> >> (redirecting stdout with ">"). When I try to regenerate the agenda,
> >> emacs complains:
> >>
> >> iCal.org changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h)
> >
> > Set "global-auto-revert-mode" to "t".
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Charles
> >
> > --
> > linux: the choice of a GNU generation
> > (address@hidden put this on Tshirts in '93)
>