Editor that warns when file on disk changes
Is there any simple editor for KDE 3.3.2 (level "a") that, like EMACS, warns users if a file that they are trying to edit has been changed on disk since it was loaded? I tried kwrite 4.3 and kate 2.3.2, and in both, even when saving to a file that has been changed on disk there is no prior warning. Yes, I did enable the option "Warn about files modified by foreign processes" in kate. OS is SuSE 9.2. -- Felix E. Klee
On Thursday 08 June 2006 11:41, Felix E. Klee wrote:
Is there any simple editor for KDE 3.3.2 (level "a") that, like EMACS, warns users if a file that they are trying to edit has been changed on disk since it was loaded?
I tried kwrite 4.3 and kate 2.3.2, and in both, even when saving to a file that has been changed on disk there is no prior warning. Yes, I did enable the option "Warn about files modified by foreign processes" in kate.
OS is SuSE 9.2.
Hi Felix, Does 9.2 come with fam ('file access monitoring') enabled by default? It's been a long time since I set up 9.2 so the details are now fuzzy, but a quick Google seems to indicate the packages fam and fam-server might need to be installed and enabled. regards, Carl
Am Thursday 08 June 2006 18:00 schrieb Carl Hartung:
On Thursday 08 June 2006 11:41, Felix E. Klee wrote:
Is there any simple editor for KDE 3.3.2 (level "a") that, like EMACS, warns users if a file that they are trying to edit has been changed on disk since it was loaded?
I tried kwrite 4.3 and kate 2.3.2, and in both, even when saving to a file that has been changed on disk there is no prior warning. Yes, I did enable the option "Warn about files modified by foreign processes" in kate.
OS is SuSE 9.2.
Hi Felix,
Does 9.2 come with fam ('file access monitoring') enabled by default? It's been a long time since I set up 9.2 so the details are now fuzzy, but a quick Google seems to indicate the packages fam and fam-server might need to be installed and enabled.
running fam does only make sense (at least for KDE) when you use NFS. Otherwise the Dnotify or Inotify implementation of KDirWatcher are the more efficient way to go. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de
On Thursday 08 June 2006 12:01, Adrian Schröter wrote:
running fam does only make sense (at least for KDE) when you use NFS. Otherwise the Dnotify or Inotify implementation of KDirWatcher are the more efficient way to go.
Well, I /did/ just prove my recollection was fuzzy! ;-) Was that the default setup in 9.2? I don't recall having to manually intervene... Carl
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 17:41 +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
Is there any simple editor for KDE 3.3.2 (level "a") that, like EMACS, warns users if a file that they are trying to edit has been changed on disk since it was loaded?
I tried kwrite 4.3 and kate 2.3.2, and in both, even when saving to a file that has been changed on disk there is no prior warning. Yes, I did enable the option "Warn about files modified by foreign processes" in kate.
OS is SuSE 9.2.
nedit, IIRC.
On Thursday 08 June 2006 23:25, Mike McMullin wrote:
nedit, IIRC.
Just tried it: Yes, nedit seems to behave just like EMACS in respect to detecting changes in files. So, I guess we'll install it. The user is a novice user (at least when it comes to text editors) who is supposed to take part in editing a shared set of files. Thanks to you, and thanks also to all the others who provided me with advice. -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Email: fk@linuxburg.de (work), felix.klee@inka.de (home) Tel: +49 721 8307937, Fax: +49 721 8307936 Linuxburg, Goethestr. 15a, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:14 +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
On Thursday 08 June 2006 23:25, Mike McMullin wrote:
nedit, IIRC.
Just tried it: Yes, nedit seems to behave just like EMACS in respect to detecting changes in files. So, I guess we'll install it. The user is a novice user (at least when it comes to text editors) who is supposed to take part in editing a shared set of files.
Thanks to you, and thanks also to all the others who provided me with advice.
Depending on the type of file, it is aware of coding tags, if the files you are editing contain code.
Felix, On Thursday 08 June 2006 08:41, Felix E. Klee wrote:
Is there any simple editor for KDE 3.3.2 (level "a") that, like EMACS, warns users if a file that they are trying to edit has been changed on disk since it was loaded?
It's not a KDE application, but jEdit always notices behind-its-back modifications to files it has open. Guru's RPMs has a jEdit package. It's a Java application, so you'll need to have at least the basic JVM packages installed, too.
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-- Felix E. Klee
Randall Schulz
Op vrijdag 9 juni 2006 01:58, schreef Randall R Schulz:
On Thursday 08 June 2006 08:41, Felix E. Klee wrote:
Is there any simple editor for KDE 3.3.2 (level "a") that, like EMACS, warns users if a file that they are trying to edit has been changed on disk since it was loaded?
It's not a KDE application, but jEdit always notices behind-its-back modifications to files it has open. Guru's RPMs has a jEdit package. It's a Java application, so you'll need to have at least the basic JVM packages installed, too.
simple kwrite difficult kate -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On 06/09/2006 09:34 PM Richard Bos wrote:
simple kwrite difficult kate
I quote Felix OP:
I tried kwrite 4.3 and kate 2.3.2, and in both, even when saving to a file that has been changed on disk there is no prior warning. Yes, I did enable the option "Warn about files modified by foreign processes" in kate.
OJ -- Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Politiker und einem Telefonhörer? Einen Telefonhörer kann man aufhängen, wenn man sich verwählt hat. (Dieter Nuhr)
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