On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Mark Volkmann wrote: > I noticed that I can > define a function in a .fish file that just echoes text, > call the function as a command to see the text, > modify the text in the file, > save the file, > run the function again and NOT see the change, > run it again and see the change. > Why is there a delay in seeing the result of the change? > The delay seems to be about two seconds.
fish will reload a function file if it hasn't been loaded in the "staleness interval", which is currently fifteen seconds (this is an implementation detail - don't rely on it being that long or short!) This is to avoid thrashing the filesystem when repeatedly calling the same function - such as in scripts. Slow filesystems like NFS are particularly vulnerable to this sort of problem. The value could possibly be tuned downwards a bit, but I think we would want to have a discussion about that on GitHub. David Adam fish committer zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
