Re: automatic dired update

[Xah Lee]

Does anyone know how to make dired auto-refresh?
For example, i have a dired buffer of dir xyz buried somewhere.
Then, i renamed some files in OS's Desktop.
Then, when i switch to dir xyz in emacs, i wish to see the updated
list without me having to type g to refresh.

originally i thought just some hook... something like

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
'revert-buffer
)

but when actually trying to do it, apparently not that simple.
I thought it must be some function or variable that tells me when
buffer display is switched or updated... can't locate it.

Thanks.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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On Dec 31 2008, 7:16 pm, "Russ P." <Russ.Paie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 31, 3:07 am,XahLee<xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Dec 30, 3:20 pm, "Russ P." <Russ.Paie...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Wouldn't it be nice if dired automatically updated every time it is
> > > "viewed" rather than requiring the user to type "g"?
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> > > Also, I find that the columns in dired get misaligned, and I need to
> > > type "g" to get them realigned. Has that ever been fixed? Thanks.
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> > you could set a hook so that whenever you switch to dired mode, it
> > gets updated.
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> > Let us know if you need the code.
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> > Perhaps this should be dired's option it emacs customization.
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> >  Xah
> > ∑http://xahlee.org/
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> > ☄
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> Yes, I would like to get the code. Thanks.