Doesn't work when editing files from a mounted directory about file-watcher HOT 19 OPEN

I'm also having this issue, or at least experiencing something similar. I have some files on a remote directory, which I'm accessing from a Windows machine and a Linux machine.

With the same file open on both machines, changes on one machine don't show up on the other (e.g. I edit the file on Linux, but the changes don't show up in Atom on Windows). However, if I edit the file with an external editor, the changes will show up on the local machine; for example, editing the file with Vim on Linux makes the changes show up in Atom on Linux, and editing the file with Sublime on Windows makes the changes show up in Atom on Windows. The issue seems to be that changes done from a remote machine don't get caught on any local machines.

The desired behavior of remote edits showing up locally works in Sublime, so I suspect that it should be somehow possible in Atom. I might hack around with the code later and see if I can figure anything out.

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I think this might be the same 'lack of notify' issue that affects files mounted via sshfs (#5). How are you sharing/mounting files between the host and guest, samba?

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I think this might be the same 'lack of notify' issue that affects files mounted via sshfs (#5). How are you sharing/mounting files between the host and guest, samba?

Yes, I'm using Samba for that. I noticed that Atom properly reloads the file when it is changed from outside the editor, and the file lies in the same machine. So maybe this is a more generic problem?

But as "noyouaretheman" said, this works properly in Sublime.

I have a ticket opened in Atom's main repository:
atom/atom#12263 (comment)

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I think this might be the same 'lack of notify' issue that affects files mounted via sshfs (#5). How are you sharing/mounting files between the host and guest, samba?

I'm using NFS. I wouldn't be surprised if this issue is related to #5.

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Perhaps something like this can help you? I was considering a similar hacky solution to the mute mount problem. It's all very medieval.
https://github.com/rubyruy/watchntouch

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Alternatively Samba 4.3 looks like it might have more support for change events:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4.3_Features_added/changed#New_FileChangeNotify_subsystem

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Ah! I might be able to put in a config option to switch to use fs.watchFile, if you know you are going to be using a mounted share. Let me look into that.

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Hi, any update on this ? I recently switched form Sublime to Atom and that's the only feature I'm missing from Sublime. I only work on remote files on a local SMB server. (v4.3.11)

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So after a lot of fighting with fs.watchFile and the current solution I was able to get this running for SSHFS. I should be pushing a new version tonight with this as an option.

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Hi again,

• When I edit a file from Sublime on the same computer where Atom is it works, it reloads the file correctly.
• When I edit a file from the smb server directly on Ubuntu it works, it reloads the file correctly.
• But, when the file is edited from another computer (connected to the SMB server), either on Sublime or Atom, I get the notification that the file has been edited but if i click "Reload", it does nothing, nor if I click on compare (it opens a new tab with the same file with no change).

Both computers are on macOS Sierra, and as I said before the SMB server is on v4.3.11.

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@AlexisWalravens:

• What does Sublime do in the 3rd scenario?
• What do you see when you close and re-open the file?

What concerns me is the 'compare' option reads from the disk directly and should get the latest version that is available. I am wondering if something is happening with Samba and a delay, or some file system peculiarity that is not updating?

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I'm going to reopen this temporarily.

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@lwblackledge

• Sublime does nothing more than Atom, the file is just edited from another computer than mine, and I tried both in Atom and Sublime to see if it had to do something with the editor the file is edited from.
• If I close and then reopen the file in Atom (cmd + shift + t) the file is updated, that's usually what I do given that the plugin doesn't work for me.

Yep, I don't about the compare option, like I said if I click it it just open a new tab in a new pan with the same file without the changes.

Edit:
I made a video : https://cloudup.com/cPGQeFcyl5P

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Reporting that it doesn't work even when 'use Watchfile' after atom reload (unless it requires reboot or unmount)

#apm -v
apm  1.15.3
npm  3.10.5
node 4.4.5 x64
python 2.7.12
git 2.7.4

#atom -v
Atom    : 1.15.0
Electron: 1.3.13
Chrome  : 52.0.2743.82
Node    : 6.5.0

#sshfs -V
SSHFS version 2.8
FUSE library version: 2.9.4
fusermount version: 2.9.4
using FUSE kernel interface version 7.19

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Hi, this issue still exists so I'd like to provide you more info.

I'm using Atom on Windows and a SMB network drive. Whenever I change a file using external editor, Atom immediately shows that there are unsaved changes and the name of the file in an opened tab changes (from "file_name.txt - project_name" to "file_name.txt~"). When using WatchFile, sometimes notification appears but Compare and Reload just open a blank file. When using Reload the filename still is "file_name.txt~" which might be the reason why it doesn't work the same way as for local files

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This issue also exists for me. I mount a directory from computational server by SSHFS and open file which contains numerical results. Every time my computation is done it adds a new results to the file. Unfortunately I don't see them in atom. Closing file and reopening works, but that's not a solution. My settings are:

• Reload Auto: OFF
• Prompt on Change: OFF
• Include the Compare option: ON
• Use WatchFile: ON

What's interesting, when "Prompt on Change" is ON, then everything works fine. But of course it's amazingly annoying, because file changes very frequently.
Another interesting thing, nano also doesn't show new lines even when I turn it off and on. But it shows from another terminal window. Vim and tail works ok.

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Forget the 'lack of notify'. Why don't you check if the file was changed on focus? (like eclipse, gedit and many other apps)
And also, more importantly, on save.

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New version should help - there have been some updates to Atom that I needed to accommodate

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