Re: View log files with emacs

[Eike <eike@eknet.org>]

Alex Kost writes:

> Drew Adams (2015-02-17 18:43 +0300) wrote:
>
>>> I have to look at some log files more often now and was wondering if
>>> there are some handy things for emacs in that regard? I'm aware of
>>> log4j-mode, but couldn't find more. It's for java (logback and log4j)
>>> log files so I'd like to do fold stacktraces etc and also remove certain
>>> parts I'm not interested in to make the file smaller (we seem to log
>>> more useless than useful stuff…).
>>
>> I see this library when I search for "log" on Emacs Wiki.
>> No idea how helpful it will be for you, however.
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/syslog-mode.el
>
> It is maintained at <https://github.com/vapniks/syslog-mode> and it's
> available on MELPA.

Ah, I really missed this one although I was searching through the melpa
package list… thank you! This looks good at first sight.