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Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support.
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:26:58 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> Is there any progress on this? Any attempt of a unified interface?
>> Not that I'm aware of, no.  OTOH, I haven't seen any attempts to use
>> the feature in any Lisp package, either.  Maybe we just don't need it ;-)
> It might be too early judging it. And people might wait for a stable API ...

I don't see how we can develop a good API without first seeing the
feature in use.
So someone should try and use the existing code for auto-revert and
dired, to get a good idea of how it plays out.  And then we can abstract
out the differences into a sane API.


        Stefan



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