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Add an option to avoid bringing the atom window to the foreground when a file has changed

Open adrianog opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

Not sure if this intended behaviour, or it can be changed at Atom config level, but if a file is changed the dialog displayed by file-watcher causes Atom to come to the foreground which is unwanted.

adrianog avatar Oct 17 '18 15:10 adrianog

I came here to write a similar issue if one had not already been opened. The behavior I would like to see is for the prompt to be suppressed until the editor window receives foreground focus, and the user should be the one to decide when that occurs. The new version is otherwise working well for me; thanks.

sdturne avatar Oct 25 '18 14:10 sdturne

Jedit presents you with a list of the changes that had taken place and you can dismiss them all at once.

But, ideally, I don't want a dialog at all. Some panel docked somewhere displaying changing colours orange (only non-dirty buffers reloaded) to red (dirty buffer changed on disk and reloaded / not reloaded depending on settings). I go check the details only if I want to do it e.g. I would not be bothered by an orange status / won't want to get to the details 99% of the times.

adrianog avatar Oct 25 '18 17:10 adrianog