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Re: How to execute/mimick the "watch" command using Emacs features?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How to execute/mimick the "watch" command using Emacs features?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 09:12:43 +0200

> From: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:09:58 -0500
> 
> Taking into consideration that =watch= doesn't work properly in =M-x
> shell= and =M-x eshell=, I'd like to know what alternatives do you guys
> use for having the same behavior of the "watch" command inside Emacs? Do
> you open a terminal emulator and execute "watch" there or have a pure
> Emacs-approach?

You could try writing a command based on the facilities in
filenotify.el, which is part of Emacs.



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