Editor should react on file changes done in a different editor, i. e. notepad

[hannescmarits]

If a file is open in the editor of theia and the file is changed and saved in an other editor, for example VS Code, than the changes should be displayed also in the editor of theia

At least with the Eclipse Blueprint Version 1.39.0 (Beta) this did not work.

Feature Description:

Just react on file changes done in other editors.

[vince-fugnitto]

@hannescmarits thank you for reporting the issue, as far as I am aware this works as expected (tested on both blueprint and from sources on Linux). Do you have any additional information about your system? Are you running out of inotify watchers?

[hannescmarits]

@vince-fugnitto
As mentioned i use the Blueprint Version 1.39.9 (Beta) under Windows 11.
It doesn't matter if the file is on my pc or on a server.
It get no update information, and the file gets not updated.
I am not sure how to check if the system runs out of inotify watchers. Can you please clarify how i can test this.
Thanks in advance

[vladarama]

@hannescmarits
I just tested on my Windows machine, using Blueprint 1.39.0 and I cannot reproduce this issue, seems to work fine on my end.

Demo:

[vince-fugnitto]

@hannescmarits I had a colleague test on Windows (repo and blueprint) (#12771 (comment)) and it worked as intended.

I'm not exactly sure what is happening in your case, does it work for smaller workspaces, are you certain you are modifying the same file and that it is being saved? If you would like to debug you can determine if you're properly receiving file watching events from @theia/filesystem.

[hannescmarits]

@vince-fugnitto
It works fine.
Maybe i really used two days wrong files. BAMM.

Okay testing it again.
Yes it works fine if the file is on my local machine.
But if the file is on a server (access via VPN) than no changes are recognized.
Thank you.

[msujew]

@hannescmarits Theia not being able to register updates on networks drives is a known issue, see #12132.