Re: ask for help

[Xiang Ruan]

Hi, Tomas

Thank you for your response.

I don't know why, I only see you message in digest mail..(maybe I should check 
my spam folder) I am sorry for replying late.

Thank you for the advice. I will check file-notify-add-watch later.


Best regards,

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:11:48PM +0900, Xiang Ruan wrote:
>> Hi, Philip
>> 
>> Thank you for the quick response.
>> 
>> Actually, I follow the below blog 
>> https://pragmaticemacs.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/how-i-view-my-google-calendar-agenda-in-emacs/
>> to view my google calendar agenda in Emacs.
>> 
>> My cron updates google calendar's agenda to a local file every
>> minute, and I use the above “open-gcal-agenda" command to show the
>> agenda in a buffer(the buffer will open with name "gcal")
>> What I want to do is, when the local file is updated by cron, I need Emacs 
>> automatically execute "open-gcal-agenda" to update the "gcal" agenda buffer.
>
> The easiest way would be to activate auto-revert minor mode
> on the buffer showing this file (M-x auto-revert-mode)
>
> For the more general case (or if you want full flexibility)
> there is file-notify-add-watch, for example, which would
> call a function provided by you whenever anything happens
> to a file.
>
> Cheers
> -- 
> t
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