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Re: [jed-users] Updating the buffers


Automatic buffer update would be really really really bad. While I wouldn't be offended at some kind of pop-up querying "document has changed on disk, would you like to reload?" with ok/ignore buttons, auto-loading would be horrible.

What happens if someone deletes a file on disk and auto-load is in place? Buffer gone. Your last version of the document on how to build mankind's first warp drive engine was in the buffer and got wiped because auto-load saw the file was gone. Mankind will never leave the solar system to explore brave new worlds.

What happens when you fat finger the document from the other machine? By fat finger I mean you save a zero byte file. That instruction manual on how to build a universal healing machine which will extend human life beyond 200 hears is lost forever.


On 02/23/2018 07:05 AM, Martin Klaiber wrote:
Hello list,

sometimes I want to work with jed on one document but on two different
computers in two different rooms. The computers are synchronized by a
program called unison which is based on rsync (AFAIK).

When I leave one computer to go to the other one, I normally stop jed
and start it again on the other computer. But it would be nicer if I
could keep both instances (do you say so?) of jed open.

I tried that out and jed shows me in the status-line with the "d" that
the file has changed on disk. When I start typing jed tells me so and
asks me if I really want to edit this buffer. If I answer no, nothing
else happens.

How can I tell jed to update the buffer? The only way I know, is to
reopen the file, which is not very comfortable.

The best would be if I could tell jed to automatically update the
buffers when the files change on disk. Is there a way to do so?

Thank you for your help
Martin
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