Re: refreshing all frames from files

[Kevin Rodgers]

Gary Wessle wrote:
> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > >  the files get changed by another process and I want to view the
> > > > >  changes with out having to do C-x C-v for each and every one.
> > > > `M-x global-auto-revert-mode' avoids the need to do anything explicitly.
> > > the mode is ON.
> > > how do you fire it?
> > It is *automatic* when ON. That is, just activate this minor-mode
> > globally and all will be okay.
> >
> > Xavier
>
> any way to make the buffer "once it gets updated" to show the last
> line and not the beginning as it does now, i.e, move the pointer down
> to the end so that I can see whats just been inserted?

From `M-x finder-commentary RET autorevert':

,----
| After reverting a file buffer, Auto Revert Mode normally puts point
| at the same position that a regular manual revert would.  However,
| there is one exception to this rule.  If point is at the end of the
| buffer before reverting, it stays at the end.  Similarly if point
| is displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it will stay
| at the end of the buffer in that window, even if the window is not
| selected.  This way, you can use Auto Revert Mode to `tail' a file.
| Just put point at the end of the buffer and it will stay there.
| These rules apply to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the
| behavior may be mode dependent.
|
| While you can use Auto Revert Mode to tail a file, this package
| contains a third minor mode, Auto Revert Tail Mode, which does so
| more efficiently, as long as you are sure that the file will only
| change by growing at the end.  It only appends the new output,
| instead of reverting the entire buffer.  It does so even if the
| buffer contains unsaved changes.  (Because they will not be lost.)
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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA