Re: Modifying a shared file

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-02-06 16:01, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> I haven't used ecomplete very much so far, but I've noticed some issues
>>> which I think are linked to having multiple Emacs sessions use it at the
>>> same time.  I haven't investigated enough to be sure, but in any case
>>> it's a use case that should be kept in mind.
>> Yes, ecomplete should check the modification date and reload the data if
>> it has changed.
> 
> [ Plus some kind of locking to avoid modifying the file at the
>   same time.  ]
> 
> I'd welcome some new function
> 
>     (defun update-file (file modification)
>       "Apply MODIFICATION to FILE."
>       ...)

This would be great. It would work nicely for recentf and savehist-mode, I 
think.