[Feature request] Live delete/rename tracking

[Fordi]

If possible, I'd like for geany to use an inotify hook (where available) to detect delete/rename of open files in real-time.

[elextr]

IIUC inotify is a Linux only capability.

An attempt was made to use the glib wrapper functions around the various platform specific notify libraries, however it generates extra spurious notifications on Linux that of course generated annoying extra user notifications, and it proved too hard to filter these out, so it was disabled. I think the code is still there if anyone wants to try to fix it.

[andy5995]

Because inotify is Linux-only, would Gamin ever be considered a suitable substitute? Though I've never used it, and don't see that it works under Windows.

[elextr]

Gamin doesn't work on windows, so no it probably won't be used.

[codebrainz]

What advantage/portability benefit does Gamin bring over GIO's FAM, inotify, kqueue, and win32 GFileMonitor backends?

[andy5995]

I don't know much about file monitoring API's; that's why I was asking ;)

[codebrainz]

The one in GLib/GIO is pretty nice, but it has problems (at least with the inotify backend) which @elextr mentioned, that nobody has provided a work-around for yet.