Re: ask for help

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

> For the more general case (or if you want full flexibility)
> there is file-notify-add-watch, for example, which would
> call a function provided by you whenever anything happens to
> a file.

(info "(elisp) File Notifications")

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/File-Notifications.html

There is a typo in in this paragraph BTW if anyone feels like
fixing that:

  It is also possible to watch filesystems on remote machines,
  see Remote Files in The GNU Emacs Manual This does not
  depend on one of the libraries linked to Emacs.

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