Re: [PATCH] autorevert.el -- revert fix for Windows platform

[Jason Rumney]

Johan Bockgård wrote:
> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > No. buffer-size is not used, both auto-revert-tail-pos and size are
> > measuring bytes in the file, not characters in the buffer.
> >     
>
> There are however two occurrences of
>
>       (set (make-local-variable 'auto-revert-tail-pos)
>             (save-restriction (widen) (1- (point-max))))
>
> in autorevert.el.
>   

I think this patch should fix that. Though maybe we need to handle a 
user trying to use this mode on a buffer without an associated file.


*** autorevert.el    26 Jan 2007 22:30:51 +0000    1.56
--- autorevert.el    24 Mar 2007 11:42:53 +0000   
***************
*** 278,284 ****
 (add-hook 'find-file-hook
       (lambda ()
         (set (make-local-variable 'auto-revert-tail-pos)
!          (save-restriction (widen) (1- (point-max))))))

 ;; Functions:

--- 278,284 ----
 (add-hook 'find-file-hook
       (lambda ()
         (set (make-local-variable 'auto-revert-tail-pos)
!          (nth 7 (file-attributes buffer-file-name)))))

 ;; Functions:

***************
*** 341,347 ****
       (add-hook 'before-save-hook (lambda () (auto-revert-tail-mode 
0)) nil t)
       (or (local-variable-p 'auto-revert-tail-pos) ; don't lose prior 
position
       (set (make-local-variable 'auto-revert-tail-pos)
!            (save-restriction (widen) (1- (point-max)))))
       ;; let auto-revert-mode set up the mechanism for us if it isn't 
already
       (or auto-revert-mode
       (let ((auto-revert-tail-mode t))
--- 341,347 ----
       (add-hook 'before-save-hook (lambda () (auto-revert-tail-mode 
0)) nil t)
       (or (local-variable-p 'auto-revert-tail-pos) ; don't lose prior 
position
       (set (make-local-variable 'auto-revert-tail-pos)
!            (nth 7 (file-attributes buffer-file-name))))
       ;; let auto-revert-mode set up the mechanism for us if it isn't 
already
       (or auto-revert-mode
       (let ((auto-revert-tail-mode t))