Re: Is there a `watch file' feature planned?

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Втр, 09/05/2006 в 15:29 +0100, John Murdie пишет:
> Various Linux users at my site are still using Gv (gv(1)
> http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/) and GGv (ggv(1)
> http://directory.fsf.org/ggv.html) because they find their `watch file'
> feature indispensable. (If this option is set, gv(1) and ggv(1) check
> the modification date of the input file - by default once a second - to
> see if it has changed. If it has, the file is re-read. Amazingly, the
> users insist that the file time must be checked this frequently.)
> 
> Is this a planned feature for Evince? Gv won't last for ever, and isn't
> Evince meant to replace GGv? (We still have Evince 0.4.0 - my apologies
> if the `watch' feature has been added since then; I can't find any
> mention of it on the web site.)
> 
> John A. Murdie
> Department of Computer Science
> University of York
> UK
> 


Hello John.

I agree that it's important feature. But it has some problems and we are
currently discussing them. You can read the bug 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304249

and add yourself to the CC list to track problem changes.