I very often need to do some Emacs magic on some files and I need to go back and forth between my IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) and Emacs.
When a change is made under Emacs (and after I've saved the file) and I go back to IntelliJ the change appears immediately (if I recall correctly I configured IntelliJ to "always reload file when a modification is detected on disk" or something like that). I don't even need to reload: as soon as IntelliJ IDEA gains focus, it instantly reloads the file (and I hence have immediately access to the modifications I made from Emacs).
So far, so very good.
However "the other way round", it doesn't work yet.
Can I configure Emacs so that everytime a file is changed on disk it reloads it?
Or make Emacs, everytime it "gains focus", verify if any file currently opened has been modified on disk?
I know I can start modifying the buffer under Emacs and it shall instantly warn that it has been modified, but I'd rather have it do it immediately (for example if I used my IDE to do some big change, when I come back to Emacs what I see may not be at all anymore what the file contains and it's a bit weird).
Add this to your .emacs:
(global-auto-revert-mode 1)
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2703296/emacs-often-switching-between-emacs-and-my-ides-editor-how-to-automatically