Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Mike Mattie]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:20:49AM +0100, Jan D. wrote:
> Mike Mattie skrev 2011-03-09 07:03:
> 
> > I have thought alot about your proposal for automatic loading so that it
> > is not necessary to edit anything, just drop a file in. There is some
> > real appeal for that kind of a feature ... but it is hard to implement.
> >
> > By hard to implement I mean really hard. Just because a file is opened
> > and written to, it is not necessarily ready to load. I hit C-x s alot
> > when tweaking files ...
> >
> > Even if I hacked some kind of inotify support to watch a directory for
> > IO activity I would never know when to actually load it.
> >
> > If you can somehow signal when a collection is ready for re-scanning
> > I can see an implementation ...
> >
> 
> It can't be hard, there are tons of programs that already have this 
> feature.  Some have inotify style loading, other just load at startup. 
> I would expect load at startup and then with a command (M-x 
> load-load-dir or some such).

That I can do.

> 
>       Jan D.
> 
> 
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