Re: how to get notified when file is changed by another application?

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Santosh Kumar <sntshkmr60@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before I heard about vim, I used to use gedit. I still try to make vim
> behave as same as gedit, this is because I have asked many questions
> related to vim on StackOverflow.
>
> One feature I am missing is when any file was modified while I was
> working on any file on gedit by another application, a popup use to
> come which says "The file <file_location> changed on disk. Do you want
> to reload the file?" And there were two buttons named "Reload" and
> "Cancel" respectively.
>
> What I want:
> (Please note that I am using vim, not gvim) I want similar feature in
> vim. I want if any file get changed on disk, a warning message come at
> status bar "File changed, press <F9> to reload".
Check :help timestamp and (just below that), :help :checktime

If you want to run checktime automatically when there is no activity
on the term for a few secs, you could do something like:
:au CursorHold * checktime
(untested)

gvim calls :checktime when it gains focus, so that should suffice.

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