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authorThierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>2021-05-25 08:41:44 +0200
committerThierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>2021-05-25 08:41:44 +0200
commit297d4a8ea885ae5345dd5b6d75d308306e538770 (patch)
treeb71229e43379c6d2e9eb59e58ca17cba6981afa1 /helm-help.el
parent61cb9f2d0078213333a5e1ef428f9baf17eb2bb2 (diff)
Allow disabling file notifications in HFF #2422
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@@ -1127,6 +1127,12 @@ You may have in some rare cases to refresh directory manually with `\\<helm-map>
for example when helm-find-files session is running and a file is modified/deleted
in current visited directory by an external command from outside Emacs.
+NOTE: Helm is using file-notify to watch visited directories,
+nowaday most systems come with a notify package but if your
+system doesn't support this, you can turn off file notifications
+by customizing the variable `helm-ff-use-notify'. In this case
+you will have to refresh manually directories when needed with `\\<helm-map>\\[helm-refresh]'.
+
** Commands
\\<helm-find-files-map>
|Keys|Description