(auto-revert-tail-mode): auto-revert-tail-pos is zero, not nil, when

the library is first loaded.  Check for a file that has been modified
on disk.

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index f1103f0e126..ca8741013f5 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2007-08-04  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * autorevert.el (auto-revert-tail-mode): auto-revert-tail-pos is
+        zero, not nil, when the library is first loaded.  Check for a file
+        that has been modified on disk.
+
+        * progmodes/cperl-mode.el (cperl-compilation-error-regexp-alist):
+        Remove duplicate defvar preventing initialization.
+        (cperl-mode): Fix compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist setting.
+
 2007-08-03  Miles Bader  <miles@gnu.org>
 
         * vc-hooks.el (vc-handled-backends): Change capitalization of VC
diff --git a/lisp/autorevert.el b/lisp/autorevert.el
index 1f4ebc57b19..cad94e789d6 100644
--- a/lisp/autorevert.el
+++ b/lisp/autorevert.el
@@ -337,6 +337,22 @@ Use `auto-revert-mode' for changes other than appends!"
              (not auto-revert-tail-pos) ; library was loaded only after finding file
              (not (y-or-n-p "Buffer is modified, so tail offset may be wrong.  Proceed? ")))
         (auto-revert-tail-mode 0)
+      ;; a-r-tail-pos stores the size of the file at the time of the
+      ;; last revert. After this package loads, it adds a
+      ;; find-file-hook to set this variable every time a file is
+      ;; loaded.  If the package is loaded only _after_ visiting the
+      ;; file to be reverted, then we have no idea what the value of
+      ;; a-r-tail-pos should have been when the file was visited.  If
+      ;; the file has changed on disk in the meantime, all we can do
+      ;; is offer to revert the whole thing. If you choose not to
+      ;; revert, then you might miss some output then happened
+      ;; between visiting the file and activating a-r-t-mode.
+      (and (zerop auto-revert-tail-pos)
+           (not (verify-visited-file-modtime (current-buffer)))
+           (y-or-n-p "File changed on disk, content may be missing.  \
+Perform a full revert? ")
+           ;; Use this (not just revert-buffer) for point-preservation.
+           (auto-revert-handler))
       ;; else we might reappend our own end when we save
       (add-hook 'before-save-hook (lambda () (auto-revert-tail-mode 0)) nil t)
       (or (local-variable-p 'auto-revert-tail-pos) ; don't lose prior position