Re: style and correctness

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 
> >    Does gmc currently check periodically for changes in the current directory
> >  and rescan it if necessary?  That would probably be almost as useful as
> >  having an easy button for explicit rescanning. (which is also very good :-)
> 
> It does not rescan periodically.  I don't know if this would be a good
> idea.  Windows Explorer seems to test for changes every two seconds or so.

My personal opinion is that it would be good if it did this every few
seconds or so for local partitions and only on command for networked
partitions.  This option should also be easily configurable, of course. 
:)

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Jesse D. Sightler
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