From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lawrence mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting view-file to act more like tail -f Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 16:08:11 +0100 Organization: funfunfun Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87el2k4ez8.fsf@kruhft.vc.shawcable.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054050085 31699 80.91.224.249 (27 May 2003 15:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 27 17:41:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19KgYz-0008CN-00 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 17:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Kg64-0002Ae-HA for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2003 11:10:40 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!vegetable.demon.co.UK!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: vegetable.demon.co.uk (80.177.16.3) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054048092 4391499 80.177.16.3 (16 [97657]) X-No-Yes: No Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ENnfXYyiw84QvqrJYL6aRmGSBa0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113740 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10235 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10235 Burton Samograd wrote: > Is there any way to get a view-file'd buffer to automatically reload > when the buffer changes (instead of hitting F)? Try (add-hook 'view-mode-hook #'turn-on-auto-revert-mode) in your ~/.emacs. It's not quite as fast as tail -f, auto-revert is done on a timer, which checks every so often to see if a file might have changed. -- lawrence mitchell