Add option to prompt when file changes on disk, irrespective of conflicts about file-watcher HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks @DanielJoyce
Unfortunately what you are talking about is the default functionality in Atom.
The file-watcher package is triggered by the conflict state from Atom's internal file tracking, and that is not fired in the scenario you describe.

I did a quick check on editor behaviour:

It looks like this might be a personal preference thing by the creators of each editor. I will look into this as an optional addition to file-watcher but I do not know if I can intercept the base Atom behaviour.

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+1 for this feature.
Imagine you're analysing a log file from a running application that updates this log file. Auto reloading the log file is awful!
As far as I know, the default behaviour on Atom is to auto reload the file, and there is no option to set it to prompt you for a confirmation to reload.

IMO, it would be nice having a way to get a prompt confirmation for reloading the file (no matter if it has changes or not).

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I have been looking into this and it might require an update to TextBuffer since it does not expose the event that the file on disk has changed unless there is a conflict.

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Resolved by 52bb9c0

I added an option (off by default) to file-watcher where it will intercept file change events before text-buffer reloads. It does this by faking out the conflict status.

I had to re-register the text-buffer file events due to an order of operation issue, but it does work for now.

If this is a feature you want please make sure you check the option in settings.

I'm closing this issue for now but I'll re-open it if this solution is inconsistent.

Thanks!

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Thanks a lot for adding this important feature!! (It's also working this way with the Kate, Geany, gvim and Scite text editors, maybe it's more common to have this with Unix / Linux editors). I hope next releases of Atom won't break this option.

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