(global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers): Expand doc string.

(buffer-stale-function): New variable.
(auto-revert-list-diff, auto-revert-dired-file-list)
(auto-revert-dired-changed-p, auto-revert-buffer-p): Delete.
(auto-revert-handler): Take over some functionality of deleted functions.
(auto-revert-buffers): Delete call to auto-revert-buffer-p.

lisp/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+2004-03-22  Luc Teirlinck  <teirllm@auburn.edu>
+
+	* autorevert.el (global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers): Expand doc
+	string.
+	(buffer-stale-function): New variable.
+	(auto-revert-list-diff, auto-revert-dired-file-list)
+	(auto-revert-dired-changed-p, auto-revert-buffer-p): Delete.
+	(auto-revert-handler): Take over some functionality of deleted
+	functions.
+	(auto-revert-buffers): Delete call to auto-revert-buffer-p.
+
+	* dired.el (dired-directory-changed-p, dired-buffer-stale-p): New
+	functions.
+	(dired-internal-noselect): Use dired-directory-changed-p.
+	Eliminate revert messages.
+	(dired-mode): Set buffer-stale-function to dired-buffer-stale-p.
+
 2004-03-23  Kenichi Handa  <handa@etlken2>
 
 	* international/characters.el: Setup syntaxes for more parentheses

lisp/autorevert.el

@@ -172,7 +172,12 @@ would only waste precious space."
 When non-nil, both file buffers and buffers with a custom
 `revert-buffer-function' are reverted by Global Auto-Revert Mode.
 
-Use this option with care since it could lead to excessive reverts."
+Use this option with care since it could lead to excessive reverts.
+Note also that for some non-file buffers the check whether the
+buffer needs updating may be imperfect, due to efficiency
+considerations, and may not take all information listed in the
+buffer into account.  Hence, a non-nil value for this option does
+not necessarily make manual updates useless for non-file buffers."
   :group 'auto-revert
   :type 'boolean)
 
@@ -193,6 +198,18 @@ Use this option with care since it could lead to excessive reverts."
 This variable becomes buffer local when set in any fashion.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'global-auto-revert-ignore-buffer)
 
+(defvar buffer-stale-function nil
+  "Function to check whether a non-file buffer needs reverting.
+This should be a function with one optional argument NOCONFIRM.
+Auto Revert Mode sets NOCONFIRM to t.  The function should return
+non-nil if the buffer should be reverted.  The buffer is current
+when this function is called.
+
+The idea behind the NOCONFIRM argument is that the same function
+can also be used to ask the user whether the buffer should be
+reverted.  In such a situation one has to be less careful about,
+say, reverting remote files, than if the function is called at
+regular intervals by Auto Revert Mode.")
 
 ;; Internal variables:
 
@@ -272,61 +289,6 @@ Use `auto-revert-mode' to revert a particular buffer."
        (not (memq major-mode
 		  global-auto-revert-ignore-modes)))))
 
-(defun auto-revert-list-diff (a b)
-  "Check if strings in list A differ from list B."
-  (when (and a b)
-    (setq a (sort a 'string-lessp))
-    (setq b (sort b 'string-lessp))
-    (let (elt1 elt2)
-      (catch 'break
-	(while (and (setq elt1 (and a (pop a)))
-		    (setq elt2 (and b (pop b))))
-	  (if (not (string= elt1 elt2))
-	      (throw 'break t)))))))
-
-(defun auto-revert-dired-file-list ()
-  "Return list of dired files."
-  (let (file list)
-    (save-excursion
-      (goto-char (point-min))
-      (while (not (eobp))
-	(if (setq file (dired-get-filename t t))
-	    (push file list))
-	(forward-line 1)))
-    list))
-
-(defun auto-revert-dired-changed-p ()
-  "Check if dired buffer has changed."
-  (when (and (stringp dired-directory)
-	     ;;	  Exclude remote buffers, would be too slow for user
-	     ;;	  modem, timeouts, network lag ... all is possible
-	     (not (string-match "@" dired-directory))
-	     (file-directory-p dired-directory))
-    (let ((files (directory-files dired-directory))
-	  (dired (auto-revert-dired-file-list)))
-      (or (not (eq (length files) (length dired)))
-	  (auto-revert-list-diff files dired)))))
-
-(defun auto-revert-buffer-p ()
-  "Check if current buffer should be reverted."
-  ;;  - Always include dired buffers to list.  It would be too expensive
-  ;;  to test the "revert" status here each time timer launches.
-  ;;  - Same for VC buffers.
-  (or (and (eq major-mode 'dired-mode)
-	   (or (and global-auto-revert-mode
-		    global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers)
-	       auto-revert-mode))
-      (and (not (buffer-modified-p))
-	   (auto-revert-vc-buffer-p))
-      (and (not (buffer-modified-p))
-	   (if (buffer-file-name)
-	       (and (file-readable-p (buffer-file-name))
-		    (not (verify-visited-file-modtime (current-buffer))))
-	     (and revert-buffer-function
-		  (or (and global-auto-revert-mode
-			   global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers)
-		      auto-revert-mode))))))
-
 (defun auto-revert-vc-cvs-file-version (file)
   "Get version of FILE by reading control file on disk."
   (let* ((control "CVS/Entries")
@@ -383,25 +345,27 @@ Use `auto-revert-mode' to revert a particular buffer."
 
 (defun auto-revert-handler ()
   "Revert current buffer."
-  (let (revert)
-    (cond
-     ((eq major-mode 'dired-mode)
-      ;;  Dired includes revert-buffer-function
-      (when (and revert-buffer-function
-		 (auto-revert-dired-changed-p))
+  (unless (buffer-modified-p)
+    (let (revert)
+      (cond
+       ((auto-revert-vc-buffer-p)
+	(when (auto-revert-handler-vc)
+	  (setq revert 'vc)))
+       ((or (and (buffer-file-name)
+		 (file-readable-p (buffer-file-name))
+		 (not (verify-visited-file-modtime (current-buffer))))
+	    (and global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers
+		 revert-buffer-function
+		 (boundp 'buffer-stale-function)
+		 (functionp buffer-stale-function)
+		 (funcall buffer-stale-function t)))
 	(setq revert t)))
-     ((auto-revert-vc-buffer-p)
-      (when (auto-revert-handler-vc)
-	(setq revert 'vc)))
-     ((or (buffer-file-name)
-	  revert-buffer-function)
-      (setq revert t)))
-    (when revert
-      (revert-buffer 'ignore-auto 'dont-ask 'preserve-modes)
-      (if (eq revert 'vc)
-	  (vc-mode-line buffer-file-name))
-      (if auto-revert-verbose
-	  (message "Reverting buffer `%s'." (buffer-name))))))
+      (when revert
+	(revert-buffer 'ignore-auto 'dont-ask 'preserve-modes)
+	(if (eq revert 'vc)
+	    (vc-mode-line buffer-file-name))
+	(if auto-revert-verbose
+	    (message "Reverting buffer `%s'." (buffer-name)))))))
 
 (defun auto-revert-buffers ()
   "Revert buffers as specified by Auto-Revert and Global Auto-Revert Mode.
@@ -453,8 +417,7 @@ the timer when no buffers need to be checked."
 		       (memq buf auto-revert-buffer-list))
 		  (setq auto-revert-buffer-list
 			(delq buf auto-revert-buffer-list)))
-	      (when (and (auto-revert-active-p)
-			 (auto-revert-buffer-p))
+	      (when (auto-revert-active-p)
 		(auto-revert-handler)
 		;; `preserve-modes' avoids changing the (minor) modes.  But we
 		;; do want to reset the mode for VC, so we do it explicitly.