Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to detect when a file changes and then add the content from
> it (if any, the file could be empty) to a specified org-mode table? Each
> line in that file is already constructed in a way that it could be copied
> and pasted to the table directly (but I can change that if it makes things
> easier).
>

Interesting question.  Here is a partial answer.

If you can write a code block which reads the external file, and then
outputs the desired table, then the attached Org-mode file should work
for you.

The following defines a function (`continually-run') which re-runs a
named code block every couple of seconds.  Code blocks already handle
the updating of their results every time they are run.  See the file
itself for more information.  After testing this I will warn that it
caused some weirdness with my cursor in the mini-buffer.

Hope this helps,