Re: Remote display-time-mail-file

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Indeed, but short of using some inotify-like thingy, Emacs has no way to
> know when a file is modified by some other program, so the best it can
> do is to say that it will be out of sync at worst up to N seconds.

A while ago, I was playing with the idea to install an inotify listener
on the remote host. I gave it up, because I haven't found a reasonable
filter which files shall be reported as being modified.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.