;; autorevert --- Revert buffers when file on disk change. ;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Anders Lindgren ;; Created: 1 Jun 1997 ;; Date: 3 Jul 1997 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; Introduction: ;; ;; Whenever a file that Emacs is editing has been changed by another ;; program the user normally have to execute the command `revert-buffer' ;; to load the new content of the file into Emacs. ;; ;; This package contains two minor modes: Global Auto-Revert Mode and ;; Auto-Revert Mode. Both modes automatically reverts buffers ;; whenever the corresponding files have been changed on disk. ;; ;; Auto-Revert Mode can be activated for individual buffers. ;; Global Auto-Revert Mode applies to all file buffers. ;; ;; Both modes operates by checking the time stamp of all files at ;; given intervals, the default is every five seconds. The check is ;; aborted whenever the user actually use Emacs. Hopefully you will ;; never even notice that this package is active (except that your ;; buffers will be reverted, of course). ;; Installation: ;; ;; To install this package, place it in somewhere on Emacs' load-path, ;; byte-compile it (not necessary), and place the following lines in ;; the appropriate init file: ;; ;; (autoload 'auto-revert-mode "autorevert" nil t) ;; (autoload 'turn-on-auto-revert-mode "autorevert" nil nil) ;; (autoload 'global-auto-revert-mode "autorevert" nil t) ;; Usage: ;; ;; Go to the appropriate buffer and press: ;; M-x auto-revert-mode RET ;; ;; To activate Global Auto-Revert Mode, press: ;; M-x global-auto-revert-mode RET ;; ;; To activate Global Auto-Revert Mode every time Emacs is started the ;; following line could be added to your ~/.emacs: ;; (global-auto-revert-mode 1) ;; ;; The function `turn-on-auto-revert-mode' could be added to any major ;; mode hook to activate Auto-Revert Mode for all buffers in that ;; mode. For example, the following line will activate Auto-Revert ;; Mode in all C mode buffers: ;; ;; (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-revert-mode) ;;; Code: ;; Dependencies: (require 'timer) (eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) ;; Custom Group: ;; ;; The two modes will be placed next to Auto Save Mode under the ;; Files group under Emacs. (defgroup auto-revert nil "Revert individual buffer when file on disk change. Auto-Revert Mode can be activated for individual buffer. Global Auto-Revert Mode applies to all buffers." :group 'files) ;; Variables: (defvar auto-revert-mode nil "*Non-nil when Auto-Revert Mode is active. Do never set this variable directly, use the command `auto-revert-mode' instead.") (defcustom global-auto-revert-mode nil "When on, buffers are automatically reverted when files on disk change. Set this variable when using \\[customize] only. Otherwise, use the command `global-auto-revert-mode' instead." :group 'auto-revert :initialize 'custom-initialize-default :set '(lambda (symbol value) (global-auto-revert-mode (or value 0))) :type 'boolean :require 'autorevert) (defcustom auto-revert-interval 5 "Time, in seconds, between Auto-Revert Mode file checks." :group 'auto-revert :type 'integer) (defcustom auto-revert-stop-on-user-input t "When non-nil Auto-Revert Mode stops checking files on user input." :group 'auto-revert :type 'boolean) (defcustom auto-revert-verbose t "When nil, Auto-Revert Mode will not generate any messages. Currently, messages are generated when the mode is activated or deactivated, and whenever a file is reverted." :group 'auto-revert :type 'boolean) (defcustom auto-revert-mode-text " ARev" "String to display in the mode line when Auto-Revert Mode is active. \(When the string is not empty, make sure that it has a leading space.)" :tag "Auto Revert Mode Text" ; To separate it from `global-...' :group 'auto-revert :type 'string) (defcustom auto-revert-mode-hook nil "Functions to run when Auto-Revert Mode is activated." :tag "Auto Revert Mode Hook" ; To separate it from `global-...' :group 'auto-revert :type 'hook) (defcustom global-auto-revert-mode-text "" "String to display when Global Auto-Revert Mode is active. The default is nothing since when this mode is active this text doesn't vary neither over time, nor between buffers. Hence a mode line text would only waste precious space." :group 'auto-revert :type 'string) (defcustom global-auto-revert-mode-hook nil "Hook called when Global Auto-Revert Mode is activated." :group 'auto-revert :type 'hook) (defcustom global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers nil "*When nil only file buffers are reverted by Global Auto-Revert Mode. When non-nil, both file buffers and buffers with a custom `revert-buffer-function' are reverted by Global Auto-Revert Mode." :group 'auto-revert :type 'boolean) (defcustom global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers nil "When nil only file buffers are reverted by Global Auto-Revert Mode. When non-nil, both file buffers and buffers with a custom `revert-buffer-function' are reverted by Global Auto-Revert Mode. Use this option with care since it could lead to excessive reverts." :group 'auto-revert :type 'boolean) (defcustom global-auto-revert-ignore-modes '() "List of major modes Global Auto-Revert Mode should not check." :group 'auto-revert :type '(repeat sexp)) (defcustom auto-revert-load-hook nil "Functions to run when Auto-Revert Mode is first loaded." :tag "Load Hook" :group 'auto-revert :type 'hook) (defvar global-auto-revert-ignore-buffer nil "*When non-nil, Global Auto-Revert Mode will not revert this buffer. This variable becomes buffer local when set in any faishon.") (make-variable-buffer-local 'global-auto-revert-ignore-buffer) ;; Internal variables: (defvar auto-revert-buffer-list '() "List of buffers in Auto-Revert Mode. Note that only Auto-Revert Mode, never Global Auto-Revert Mode, adds buffers to this list. The timer function `auto-revert-buffers' is responsible for purging the list of old buffers.") (defvar auto-revert-timer nil "Timer used by Auto-Revert Mode.") (defvar auto-revert-remaining-buffers '() "Buffers not checked when user input stopped execution.") ;; Functions: ;;;###autoload (defun auto-revert-mode (&optional arg) "Revert buffer when file on disk change. This is a minor mode that affect only the current buffer. Use `global-auto-revert-mode' to automatically revert all buffers." (interactive "P") (make-local-variable 'auto-revert-mode) (setq auto-revert-mode (if (null arg) (not auto-revert-mode) (> (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0))) (if (and auto-revert-verbose (interactive-p)) (message "Auto-Revert Mode is now %s." (if auto-revert-mode "on" "off"))) (if auto-revert-mode (if (not (memq (current-buffer) auto-revert-buffer-list)) (push (current-buffer) auto-revert-buffer-list)) (setq auto-revert-buffer-list (delq (current-buffer) auto-revert-buffer-list))) (auto-revert-set-timer) (when auto-revert-mode (auto-revert-buffers) (run-hooks 'auto-revert-mode-hook))) ;;;###autoload (defun turn-on-auto-revert-mode () "Turn on Auto-Revert Mode. This function is designed to be added to hooks, for example: (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-revert-mode)" (auto-revert-mode 1)) ;;;###autoload (defun global-auto-revert-mode (&optional arg) "Revert any buffer when file on disk change. This is a minor mode that affect all buffers. Use `auto-revert-mode' to revert a particular buffer." (interactive "P") (setq global-auto-revert-mode (if (null arg) (not global-auto-revert-mode) (> (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0))) (if (and auto-revert-verbose (interactive-p)) (message "Global Auto-Revert Mode is now %s." (if global-auto-revert-mode "on" "off"))) (auto-revert-set-timer) (when global-auto-revert-mode (auto-revert-buffers) (run-hooks 'global-auto-revert-mode-hook))) (defun auto-revert-set-timer () "Restart or cancel the timer." (if (timerp auto-revert-timer) (cancel-timer auto-revert-timer)) (if (or global-auto-revert-mode auto-revert-buffer-list) (setq auto-revert-timer (run-with-timer auto-revert-interval auto-revert-interval 'auto-revert-buffers)) (setq auto-revert-timer nil))) (defun auto-revert-buffers () "Revert buffers as specified by Auto-Revert and Global Auto-Revert Mode. Should `global-auto-revert-mode' be active all file buffers are checked. Should `auto-revert-mode' be active in some buffers, those buffers are checked. Non-file buffers that have a custom `revert-buffer-function' are reverted either when Auto-Revert Mode is active in that buffer, or when the variable `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil and Global Auto-Revert Mode is active. This function stops whenever the user use Emacs. The buffers not checked are stored in the variable `auto-revert-remaining-buffers'. To avoid starvation, the buffers in `auto-revert-remaining-buffers' are checked first the next time this function is called. This function is also responslible for removing buffers no longer in Auto-Revert mode from `auto-revert-buffer-list', and for canceling the timer when no buffers need to be checked." (let ((bufs (if global-auto-revert-mode (buffer-list) auto-revert-buffer-list)) (remaining '()) (new '())) ;; Partition `bufs' into two halves depending on whether or not ;; the buffers are in `auto-revert-remaining-buffers'. The two ;; halves are then re-joined with the "remaining" buffers at the ;; head of the list. (dolist (buf auto-revert-remaining-buffers) (if (memq buf bufs) (push buf remaining))) (dolist (buf bufs) (if (not (memq buf remaining)) (push buf new))) (setq bufs (nreverse (nconc new remaining))) (while (and bufs (not (and auto-revert-stop-on-user-input (input-pending-p)))) (let ((buf (car bufs))) (if (buffer-name buf) ; Buffer still alive? (save-excursion (set-buffer buf) ;; Test if someone has turned off Auto-Revert Mode in a ;; non-standard way, for example by changing major mode. (if (and (not auto-revert-mode) (memq buf auto-revert-buffer-list)) (setq auto-revert-buffer-list (delq buf auto-revert-buffer-list))) (when (and (or auto-revert-mode (and global-auto-revert-mode (not global-auto-revert-ignore-buffer) (not (memq major-mode global-auto-revert-ignore-modes)))) (not (buffer-modified-p)) (if (buffer-file-name) (and (file-readable-p (buffer-file-name)) (not (verify-visited-file-modtime buf))) (and revert-buffer-function (or (and global-auto-revert-mode global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers) auto-revert-mode)))) (if auto-revert-verbose (message "Reverting buffer `%s'." buf)) (revert-buffer t t))) ;; Remove dead buffer from `auto-revert-buffer-list'. (setq auto-revert-buffer-list (delq buf auto-revert-buffer-list)))) (setq bufs (cdr bufs))) (setq auto-revert-remaining-buffers bufs) ;; Check if we should cancel the timer. (when (and (not global-auto-revert-mode) (null auto-revert-buffer-list)) (cancel-timer auto-revert-timer) (setq auto-revert-timer nil)))) ;; The end: (unless (assq 'auto-revert-mode minor-mode-alist) (push '(auto-revert-mode auto-revert-mode-text) minor-mode-alist)) (unless (assq 'global-auto-revert-mode minor-mode-alist) (push '(global-auto-revert-mode global-auto-revert-mode-text) minor-mode-alist)) (provide 'autorevert) (run-hooks 'auto-revert-load-hook) ;; This makes it possible to set Global Auto-Revert Mode from ;; Customize. (if global-auto-revert-mode (global-auto-revert-mode 1)) ;; autorevert.el ends here.