Re: Emacs inotify support?

[Richard Stallman]

    Ideal case : emacs would monitor every file
    used by buffers, and notify of changes with the current dialog (continue,
    refresh, etc) in visible buffers.

To have the capability to watch a file for changes would be useful.
To do this by default for all visited files could be more of a pain in
the neck than a convenience.

The current system works well for visited files -- you can't
accidentally overwrite someone else's change, and any time you want to
find out whether the file has changed, just save it.