On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Linda A. Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:

> David Fishburn wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>     is right next to it... but it's a short rebuild, fortunately.
>>
>> Late on the thread, but have you read this tip?
>>
>> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Have_Vim_check_automatically_
>> if_the_file_has_changed_externally
>>
>> Not sure if it will address your use case or not.
>>
> ----
>    Most of that article is about suppressing excessive change events coming
> in because they are interrupting one.   Since the file it is monitoring is
> output
> only (from a make script), it can't interrupt me too often.  It is a GUI
> version,
> so will try moving cursor (simply clicking in the window doesn't force a
> reread if vim has recently updated).
>

Clicking in the window may work if you enable the CursorMoved and
CursorMovedI events, though there are warnings about performance of those.

:set updatetime?
4000

The CursorHold would be triggered every 4 seconds, you can always decrease
that amount.

Hitting the <Escape> key I believe will trigger this.

Though it is a while since I messed with this stuff.

David

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