anokun7 wrote: > This is awesome - thank you for the really wonderful > suggestions - I still need to try them before I can settle on > which suits best for me.
I was only trying to get you to say exactly what you hoped to achieve. I'm not saying it's possible! Vim, of course, is a text editor, and it does not have a built-in method to notice when one of a number of files has changed, then switch to show the tail of that file. You could probably script something, but it might not be pretty. The first problem is that Vim is a general purpose editor, and there is no way to tell it that you are reading a log file, and you want some more of the file read in. Vim would have to read the whole file, from scratch, every time. If your logs don't change often, that might be ok. There are programs intended for reviewing log files, and they can make assumptions that Vim can't. I just put "log file tail monitor windows" (no quotes) into Google and got lots of interesting hits. If you can't get a specific recommendation, I would put "baretail" into Google and see if it has any problems reported. If not, I'd buy the $25 version without even bothering with the free offering. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
