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/