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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Usecase for inotify? Re: How to add content from a file to a
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:58:44 +0200
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> From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:37:19 +0530
> Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> There is support for inotify in Emacs.  Last I heard, people were
> interested in hearing use-cases.
> 
> I am not sure it qualifies as a minimal use-case.  But it is something
> that comes out of real life.  So here it goes to emacs-devel...

Thanks.

However, at least from my perspective, a useful use case should
include a description of how a feature was actually implemented using
the file notification, how the provided APIs were used to implement
it, and what experience and suggestions for API modifications were
gained as result.