Re: re-read an opened file...

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Reichenberg <r.reichenberg@gmx.de> writes:

  Roland> Hi everybody,

  Roland> does anybody know how to re-read an already opened file?

  Roland> If another process has changed the contents of the file that
  Roland> I have already opened before, how can I make emacs to read
  Roland> again the newest source of the file?

M-x revert-buffer

or try and edit the buffer and emacs will ask you about it. 

Also see "auto-revert-mode" which is, er, a mode which reverts
automatically. 

Cheers


Phil