From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to follow the end of *Messages* buffer in Emacs?
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:39:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k7ksrc02kqo@news6.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zk2qxucv.fsf@gmail.com>
> I am playing with Elisp, and I find convenient to have the *Messages*
> buffer always open in a window in my frame.
>
> I discovered recently that sometimes the buffer stops following the last
> lines. If I want to see the last appended lines in this buffer, I need
> to go in the buffer and jump to the end manually, with M->. Which is
> quite annoying and disruptive.
>
> I am trying to reproduce the "tail -f" command line, in a buffer. Of
> course 'auto-revert-tail-mode complains that the *Messages* is not a
> visited file... As a consequence, this mode does not want to work. But
> it gave me the idea to add a function hook when the buffer is modified.
> That function would jump to (point-max) each time that buffer is
> modified.
>
> Here is my own attempt, invoked from *Messages* buffer, with M-:
> (add-hook
> 'after-change-functions
> (lambda (s e l) (goto-char (point-max)))
> nil t)
>
> But it does not work. The (point) remains in the same place while I see
> the buffer is growing... The lambda function does not produce any error,
> otherwise it would have been removed from the 'after-change-functions
> hook and C-h k 'after-change-functions shows it is present.
>
> Any better suggestions?
>
I don't know if it's better, but this macro works:
C-x (
C-x 5 b *Messages*
M->
C-u -1
C-x 5 o
C-x )
C-x C-k n bot-mess
(global-set-key [(super a)] 'bot-mess) C-x C-e
Keeping at the bottom of *Messages* this way does require intermittent
manual intervention but it's only one keychord.
Ed
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 22:52 How to follow the end of *Messages* buffer in Emacs? Yves Baumes
2012-11-10 6:39 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2012-11-10 10:07 ` Peter Dyballa
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2012-11-10 11:56 martin rudalics
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2012-11-10 15:55 ` Yves Baumes
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2012-11-10 18:51 ` martin rudalics
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2012-11-10 19:56 ` Yves Baumes
2012-11-10 21:02 ` martin rudalics
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2012-11-10 22:00 ` Yves Baumes
2012-11-12 9:56 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 22:24 ` Yves Baumes
2012-11-11 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-12 9:57 martin rudalics
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