Is there any way to cause autoread to trigger more often? As far as I
can tell, it only triggers on a focus change (just a guess). So, if
some external program is slowly writing to the file, you don't get the
updates (in Windows anyway)
Just a question:
If something else is constantly making changes to the file outside of Vim,
why would you be editing that file? Concurrent changes are dangerous,
which is why Vim keeps a swap file.
If per chance you are using Vim to monitor the file, may be do periodic
diffs to another file using whatever external program that you are
updating with?
Not sure of you exact requirements though...
unless you switch back and forth between
gvim and the command shell.
That's what I was going to say. Write a scrip to quit vim and start it up
again for x number of times if you want?
Johnathan
