The watch-files suspended during /run command

[aweis89]

Issue

It seems like Aider ignores file changes if they're made during a /run command

Reproduce steps

• Create a file with a valid Aider comment (e.x. -- ai?)
• Start up Aider with --watch-files (after comment creation)
• Run in Aider /run touch <path with ai comment> (in-order to trigger Aider to process the comment)

Aider will never process the AI comment. Although if you run the same command in a another terminal, Aider does process the comment as expected.

Version and model info

Aider v0.69.1
Model: gemini/gemini-exp-1206 with whole edit format
Git repo: .git with 19 files
Repo-map: using 1024 tokens, files refresh

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

Yes, aider only watches for changes when it is waiting for your input at the aider > prompt.

[aweis89]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

Yes, aider only watches for changes when it is waiting for your input at the aider > prompt.

I guess that makes sense, I could see it getting complicated when there are subsequent comments added to the same file.

Perhaps we can add a command /process-comments <files> to explicitly tell Aider to process a file's comments (whether or not --watch-files is enabled)?

This can potentially be more useful for plugins for the following reasons:

• Plugins can tell Aider to process a file when qualifying comments are written before Aider startup (e.x. if they auto-start aider when the first qualifying comments are written)
• IDE's often have hooks for post-save they can use to trigger this new command for the written file, eliminating the need for file watching entirely
• IDE's are often already running treesitter which can be used to efficiently query comments (without needing to re-read the entire file or preform a regex search on each write)

Aside from plugin integration, it can also be useful for user's who wrote comments that were missed from the watch, without needing to go back to the editor and re-save the file when they're already in the Aider terminal