Getting view-file to act more like tail -f

Getting view-file to act more like tail -f

[Burton Samograd]

Hi,

Is there any way to get a view-file'd buffer to automatically reload
when the buffer changes (instead of hitting F)?

-- 
burton samograd
kruhft@kruhft.dyndns.org
http://kruhftwerk.dyndns.org

Re: Getting view-file to act more like tail -f

[lawrence mitchell]

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 <wence@gmx.li>

Re: Getting view-file to act more like tail -f

[Peter S Galbraith]

Burton Samograd <kruhft@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to get a view-file'd buffer to automatically reload
> when the buffer changes (instead of hitting F)?

Maybe this will work for you:


;;; tail.el --- Tail files within Emacs

;; Copyright (C) 2000 by Benjamin Drieu

;; Author: Benjamin Drieu <bdrieu@april.org>

;;; Commentary:

;;  This program displays ``tailed'' contents of files inside
;;  transients windows of Emacs.  It is primarily meant to keep an eye
;;  on logs within Emacs instead of using additional terminals.

;;  This was developed for GNU Emacs 20.x but should work as well for
;;  XEmacs 21.x

;;  Primary URL for tail.el is http://inferno.cs.univ-paris8.fr/~drieu/emacs/