[Geany-Users] automatically Reload the current file from disk upon external modification?

[Matthew Brush]

On 14-07-09 03:30 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9 July 2014 18:36, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> Currently Geany will pop-up a dialogue:
>>> "The file 'gWidgets2-filter.R' on the disk is more recent than
>>> the current buffer.
>>>
>>> Do you want to reload it?"
>>>
>>> when the same file has been modified externally. When working on a
>>> file using two different editors at the same time (and saving
>>> frequently), the workflow would be nicer if the file were
>>> automatically reloaded from disk upon external modification.
>>
>> Tow editors on the same file!! Here lies madness ;)
>>
> Well, maybe, but I take full responsibility for my own stupidity: I
> just want the workflow to be useful. Here's my personal reason for
> doing that: http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/using_geany_with_r#combining_geany_with_rstudio
> .
>
>
>>>
>>> Is there some hidden option that allows to achieve this?
>>
>> No, but if you want to do it manually you can disable checking by
>> setting the timeout in prefs to zero.
>>
> Is it worth filing a feature request on Github for disabling the
> confirmation dialogue (via a hidden option)? I quite like the
> automatic reload, which is very useful, and I wouldn't want to have to
> do it manually all the time.
>

FYI, the next version of Geany doesn't use a modal dialog anymore, it 
uses a message inside the document tab, which is somewhat less annoying, 
even if it still doesn't reload automatically.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush