1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/gui/gui.zig b/src/gui/gui.zig
index d8086981..998573b5 100644
--- a/src/gui/gui.zig
+++ b/src/gui/gui.zig
@@ -2137,6 +2137,11 @@ fn drainEffects(
             _ = c.SDL_SetClipboardText(z.ptr);
         },
         .lsp => |e| if (threads_ok) spawnLsp(core, gpa, queue, e),
+        // ponytail: the SDL shell does not watch files. Everything the core
+        // needs is already here (the effect and the file_changed event) — what
+        // is missing is the ~50 lines of inotify plumbing in tty.zig, and a
+        // shell that never delivers the event simply never reloads.
+        .watch => {},
         .quit => {},
     };
 }
@@ -2174,8 +2179,9 @@ fn drainEffectsWeb(core: *pardes.Pardes, gpa: std.mem.Allocator, g: *Gui) void {
         },
         // look on a URL → a new tab
         .open_link => |url| openLinkWeb(gpa, url.slice()),
-        // nothing to spawn/write/resize/save/dump into — all no-ops
-        .spawn, .write, .resize_pty, .save_file, .write_dump, .lsp, .quit => {},
+        // nothing to spawn/write/resize/save/dump into, and no filesystem to
+        // watch — all no-ops
+        .spawn, .write, .resize_pty, .save_file, .write_dump, .lsp, .watch, .quit => {},
     };
 }