Mercurial > emacs
changeset 56156:698bb0e02eba
(global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers): Update docstring.
| author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:33:35 +0000 |
| parents | 95c33e716dd3 |
| children | c5c3b00f985c |
| files | lisp/autorevert.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/autorevert.el Fri Jun 18 23:01:30 2004 +0000 +++ b/lisp/autorevert.el Sat Jun 19 00:33:35 2004 +0000 @@ -178,17 +178,13 @@ When non-nil, both file buffers and buffers with a custom `revert-buffer-function' and a `buffer-stale-function' are -reverted by Global Auto-Revert Mode. +reverted by Global Auto-Revert mode. These include the Buffer +List buffer, and Dired buffers showing complete local +directories. Dired buffers do not auto-revert as a result of +changes in subdirectories or in the contents, size, modes, etc., +of files. You may still sometimes want to revert them manually. -Use this option with care since it could lead to excessive reverts. -Note also that for some non-file buffers the check whether the -buffer needs updating may be imperfect, due to efficiency -considerations, and may not take all information listed in the -buffer into account. Hence, a non-nil value for this option does -not necessarily make manual updates useless for non-file buffers. - -To find out to which buffers this option currently applies, as -well as for further details, see Info node `(emacs-xtra)Autorevert'." +For more information, see Info node `(emacs-xtra)Autorevert'." :group 'auto-revert :type 'boolean :link '(info-link "(emacs-xtra)Autorevert"))