Re: Moving a file

> Shawn, what is it you're trying to do, exactly? The two parts of your
> question ("changing which file a buffer points to" and "get notified
> when a file is externally modified") are unrelated in vim.
>

This is a vim-related list, but this does raise the question of whether
vim is even the appropriate tool? It sounds like some some sort of
monitoring effort.

Vim is wonderful for a human creating or updating a text, then going away
to do something else. Operations involving multiple files, intermittent or
unpredictable events, and other situations fit other programs better.

The programs in the *nix tool chest are all powerful and flexible. As a
result, sufficiently dedicated perversity can bend almost all of them to
do jobs wildly different from their designers' intentions. (Video games
written in sed, for example:https://github.com/aureliojargas/sokoban.sed
.) Just because it's possible doesn't make it advisable.

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