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| author | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2021-10-15 16:29:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2021-10-15 16:29:11 +0200 |
| commit | 4ad0fc0dd08d65978ed8a1637bc1a14c26b41bee (patch) | |
| tree | e4d29304df6488f9bc23954e172c63fa818ec859 /lisp/filenotify.el | |
| parent | f5b8df14c6d9c906eed548c694f23e5abcf6e403 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-4ad0fc0dd08d65978ed8a1637bc1a14c26b41bee.tar.gz | |
Precise documentation of file-notify-add-watch
* doc/lispref/os.texi (File Notifications):
* lisp/filenotify.el (file-notify-add-watch): Precise, that
watching a directory includes reports on file changes for some
backends. (Bug#51146)
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/filenotify.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/filenotify.el | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/filenotify.el b/lisp/filenotify.el index e0dceb704d5..271fa270836 100644 --- a/lisp/filenotify.el +++ b/lisp/filenotify.el @@ -390,7 +390,9 @@ include the following symbols: permissions or modification time If FILE is a directory, `change' watches for file creation or -deletion in that directory. This does not work recursively. +deletion in that directory. Some of the file notification +backends report also file changes. This does not work +recursively. When any event happens, Emacs will call the CALLBACK function passing it a single argument EVENT, which is of the form |