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by ISO-morphism 2735 days ago
That's constantly polling the filesystem, isn't it?

I've never used it myself, but I know systemd has file watching built in. I think using `PathModified=/path/to/org` would also eliminate the need for entr [1].

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.pat...
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spatular 2735 days ago
It should re-poll only when a new file is added. In op's usage scenario it won't be very ofthen.

The systemd solution may be even better, though it seems there is no way to ignore changes in temporary files that emacs likes to create.

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