Re: tramp and auto-revert-tail-mode

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> Dieter Wilhelm <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Thank you for the pointer: It seems to me that file-remote-p is not
>> thoroughly enough for above cases when the file is indeed locally
>> opened?
>
> No, it is sufficient. People might find access via su(do)? methods
> slow as well.


Hmmm, I realised that with tramp there are temporary files involved,
so yes not in my case but in general it might be slow, I trust your
judgment.

>
> Maybe a customer option `auto-revert-remote-files' would be helpful,
> set to nil by default. Then a user can decide whether to revert remote
> files, too.
>

Yes, this would be helpful.  Should we start a feature request?  How
is this commonly done?

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany