On 22 July 2015 at 22:24, Tim Tisdall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 July 2015 at 17:04, Matthew Brush <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've never heard of it. One thing you could try is to watch the files using >> `inotifywait` (in `inotify-tools` package) like: >> >> $ inotifywait -m /path/to/a/file/in/question >> >> And see if it reports changes. Another way (since I don't think Geany uses >> inotify by default but rather just stat's the file), would be something >> like: >> >> $ watch -n 1 stat -c '%y' /path/to/a/file/in/question >> >> And see if the timestamp changes when you do whatever stuff to the files. If >> it does change, it's expected that Geany would prompt you since the file >> actually changed (it would be a bug in your filesystem). > > I'm on a different machine today, but I'll have to try this out on > Friday when I'm using the machine I upgraded on. > > Is there any way to switch Geany to using inotify over stat? I'm not > sure if that'd help, but worth a try.
It has been tried, but IIRC it seemed to generate even more spurious notifications, so it was turned off. Cheers Lex > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
