{"items": [{"author": "the-fritz", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6fz35b", "anchor": "r-c6fz35b", "service": "r", "text": "I always thought about something like that. But then again I remember the one time when the "file changed on disk" thing saved my ass.\n", "timestamp": 1349101330}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6fzri8", "anchor": "r-c6fzri8", "service": "r", "text": "→ Courage wolf\n", "timestamp": 1349104490}, {"author": "Farsyte", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6fzu31", "anchor": "r-c6fzu31", "service": "r", "text": "The global auto revert mode can do the wrong thing ...\n\n
... when you have been editing a file, and saved it, and in another\nwindow did something that reverted the file to an antique version.\n\n
I've had a few cases where the modified file sitting in the Emacs\nbuffer would have been really nice.\n\n
But then ... a few cases in how many years? Yeah, I leave this ON : )\n", "timestamp": 1349104803}, {"author": "clahey", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6g03bg", "anchor": "r-c6g03bg", "service": "r", "text": "I didn't know about it, but even still, I will leave this off. The modified file sitting in emacs has saved me quite often and having to say "Yes I want to reload this file" hasn't been a big ordeal.\n\n
Has it cost more than it would have saved though? That I'm not sure of.\n", "timestamp": 1349105867}, {"author": "permafrosty", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6g12ni", "anchor": "r-c6g12ni", "service": "r", "text": "Mmm... The git argument doesn't count, since there are tools such as magit and egg. And editing a file with a different browser is also not a real excuse, since Emacs can run as a daemon and can display frames on both a graphical and a text terminal...\n", "timestamp": 1349109752}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6g1psc", "anchor": "r-c6g1psc", "service": "r", "text": "→ I like emacs a lot, but I don't use it for everything. If you never leave emacs this is probably not a setting you need.\n", "timestamp": 1349112191}, {"author": "jedediah", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6g1x1w", "anchor": "r-c6g1x1w", "service": "r", "text": "→ The git argument still counts, it just might not be applicable to people who use magit or egg exclusively. I like using magit, but there are many workflow tools I use that run git commands directly, meaning global-auto-revert-mode is a huge win.\n", "timestamp": 1349112939}, {"author": "opted out", "source_link": "#", "anchor": "unknown", "service": "unknown", "text": "this user has requested that their comments not be shown here", "timestamp": "1349117292"}, {"author": "jimm", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6g4ypc", "anchor": "r-c6g4ypc", "service": "r", "text": "auto-revert-tail-mode is fantastic for log files.\n", "timestamp": 1349123905}, {"author": "nitroll", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6g8nko", "anchor": "r-c6g8nko", "service": "r", "text": "My solution:\n(global-set-key (kbd "<f5>") 'revert-buffer)\n", "timestamp": 1349138199}, {"author": "skeeto", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10rdl2#c6g90w9", "anchor": "r-c6g90w9", "service": "r", "text": "That does the wrong thing too often. My solution to to making reverting really easy -- a key binding with no additional confirmation. I bind [F2] to (revert-buffer nil t).\n", "timestamp": 1349139587}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1349147565786", "service": "gp", "text": "Once in a while, I have a file in a buffer, with changes that I want, and something else has accidentally changed the file out from under it. (The ItsAllText extension in Firefox is a likely culprit, if I forget that I already had a buffer for a text box and tell it to open a new one.) But only once in a while.", "timestamp": 1349147565}, {"author": "M.", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/115808403671866389878", "anchor": "gp-1349354763337", "service": "gp", "text": "When a file changes under me, it's usually the CVS header after a command-line check-in. I use RCS in emacs for some things but I don't bother to configure CVS there. (I think the last time I tried I ran into issues with sspi authentication in CVSNT.) If it diffs for me spontaneously, I'm happy; if it won't diff I'm not surprised. So I'll give auto-revert a shot.", "timestamp": 1349354763}]}