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No, file notifications are not yet supported on Mac OS X, as detailed in the other answer.

I'd guess that one reason for that is that on earlier OS X versions, notifications were limited to telling you that something had changed in a certain directory; it wouldn't tell you what in that directory had changed. Given that limitation, the API on the Emacs Lisp level would be rather inconsistent.

File-level notifications were introduced in 10.7 (Lion). This questionThis question contains more details. As I understand it, it should now be possible to implement this functionality for Emacs on OS X.

No, file notifications are not yet supported on Mac OS X, as detailed in the other answer.

I'd guess that one reason for that is that on earlier OS X versions, notifications were limited to telling you that something had changed in a certain directory; it wouldn't tell you what in that directory had changed. Given that limitation, the API on the Emacs Lisp level would be rather inconsistent.

File-level notifications were introduced in 10.7 (Lion). This question contains more details. As I understand it, it should now be possible to implement this functionality for Emacs on OS X.

No, file notifications are not yet supported on Mac OS X, as detailed in the other answer.

I'd guess that one reason for that is that on earlier OS X versions, notifications were limited to telling you that something had changed in a certain directory; it wouldn't tell you what in that directory had changed. Given that limitation, the API on the Emacs Lisp level would be rather inconsistent.

File-level notifications were introduced in 10.7 (Lion). This question contains more details. As I understand it, it should now be possible to implement this functionality for Emacs on OS X.

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No, file notifications are not yet supported on Mac OS X, as detailed in the other answer.

I'd guess that one reason for that is that on earlier OS X versions, notifications were limited to telling you that something had changed in a certain directory; it wouldn't tell you what in that directory had changed. Given that limitation, the API on the Emacs Lisp level would be rather inconsistent.

File-level notifications were introduced in 10.7 (Lion). This question contains more details. As I understand it, it should now be possible to implement this functionality for Emacs on OS X.