Auto-update/refresh

[aramk]

It seems that the color added from git status doesn't update when changing files? I need to backspace out of the directory and back in for it to take effect?

[vovkkk]

Yes, you can press r to refresh view.

Auto-update should be possible and this issue was raised previously, but the concern is performance, esp. in edge cases.

I think we are going to reach this goal sooner or later, let’s keep it open.

[aramk]

Ah ok, sounds good 👍 Pressing r key does work. Perhaps we can limit the git status call to only update for visible files, and when we expand a directory perhaps.

[vovkkk]

I’ve publish basic implementation in autorefresh branch, let’s test it.

Before publish it in master, we have to do following stuff (I hope to finish it in next couple of weeks):

• fix all bugs, if any (please, report them here)
• global disable of auto-refresh via user settings
• per-view disable of auto-refresh via context menu
• scheduling auto-refresh to prevent it happen more than once per second (or other suitable period of time, I’m not sure yet) — this is needed for good performance when a lot of stuff happens in folder, e.g. some process copy many files into it
• add compiled fsevent module for watchdog into sublime-watchdog — this is needed for better performance on OS X, I’ve no Mac, so it’s up to you Mac-users.
• make code pretty, refactor, all that jazz
• fallback in case dependency(s) unavailable (e.g. in case SFB was installed manually)

[vovkkk]

Any suggestions for ‘icons’ that show if current view is supposed to be automatically refreshed?

For now I take Ѻ and Ӝ
In sync

Not in sync

[aziz]

These characters look weird. does it need to be on status bar? can't we just log it to the console?

[vovkkk]

The reason was that I’ve put Toggle in context menu so these chars were supposed to help user understand what will happen, disable or enable.

Now I figured how to change caption on the fly, so no need to use status-bar.

[vovkkk]

It seems ready in general, I’m going to release new version this Friday.