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Re: why 4 inotfy events when saving a file?


From: Gregor Zattler
Subject: Re: why 4 inotfy events when saving a file?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:14:17 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Hi Eli, Emacs users and developers,
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [11. Mar. 2013]:
>> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:44:42 +0100
>> From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
>> 
>> saving a file from Emacs gives 4 inotify events:
[...]
>> why are there so many events?
> 
> Because that's what Emacs does when it saves the file, first to the
> old version, then to the new.  Take a look at the implementation of
> write-region, which is the primitive used by save-buffer to write the
> buffer to its file, you will see all those operations there.

Thanks (also to Barry Margolin) for the explanation.  I now
search for a after-file-save-hook.  But I didn't find it.  Is
there some such thing?


Ciao, Gregor
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