Re: How to automatically update the view in a vim when the same file is changed in other vim session?

On May 1, 10:19 am, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 01/05/10 16:30, Peng Yu wrote:
>
> > If I open the same file in two gvim sessions, and modify and write the
> > file in one session, the other session will be notified. However, this
> > is not true for vim. Is there a way to configure vim do the same thing?
>
> See :help 'autoread'
>
> Note that Vim doesn't know that "the other program" which modified the
> file is another instance of Vim -- it could be anything. Also, this
> won't work if Vim notices that a 'modified' file has also been modified
> somewhere else: in this case you will have to decide which changes to trash.
>
> Finer control (but also more occasions to shoot yourself in the foot) is
> afforded by the FileChangedShell autocommand event.

I type :set autoread in both vim session starting from genome-
terminal. Then, I write to the file from one vim session, the other
vim doesn't know the file has been changed. However, gvim knows a file
has been changed. Therefore, I doubt that it is because of some
configuration problem.

Then, what is the different between gvim and vim cause the difference
in this behavior?

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