Automatic reload when file changes

[jichu4n]

Feature request: Automatically reload a file when the file changes on disk. This is useful e.g. for LaTeX editing.

[maandree]

Isn't the 'e' key binding enough. Seems like adding this feature adds a lot of complexity for almost no gain, and it's not even certain that the user wants the file to reload. The user may for example want to have the old version in one VT and the new version in the other VT so that they can be compared.

If you add this, not only do you have to add a thread that waits on inotify, you also need to stop it from drawing if the it's VT is not in the foreground.

[jichu4n]

Thanks a lot for weighing in! This was requested by another user who wanted this behavior (and didn't want to press "e" each time), but you're absolutely right in that it would cause undesirable behavior in many other cases. So I guess it should be optional and disabled by default.

[WuerfelDev]

Got it working.
Need to clean up the code and will push soon.