Re: Update a buffer programmatically

[kgold]

If you put the results in a file, auto-revert-mode should do what you
want.

elad@cs.bgu.ac.il (Elad Eyal) writes:
> 
> What I want is to display a read-only buffer called, say "results",
> and have emacs update it automatically every time a file called
> "~/build_log" is modified (by the compiler). The data in buffer
> "results" will be gathered by a lengthy grep operation over 300 or so
> files (this will take about 1 minute).
> 
> I'm not sure if I want "results" to be a file or a temp buffer. (I
> might want it to be a file so that it can be accessed from outside
> emacs).

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