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Aaron Shen
Aaron Shen

Reputation: 8414

Why eclipse preference general->workspace->refresh using native hooks or polling not working?

I'm using vim in cygwin writing javascript code, using eclipse tomcat as web server. I checked the preference refresh using native hooks or polling. But after I write the buffer in vim, the project won't get refreshed, so the hosted application won't get republished neither. Only after I press F5 on the project manually, then everything works fine. Can someone help here? What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 328

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172748

By default, Vim writes the file contents to a temporary file and then moves that over the original, see :help backup. Since this is now a different file (handle), the hooks set up by Eclipse may stop working.

You can make Vim override the original file by setting

:set backupcopy=yes

Upvotes: 2

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