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Tail a file

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Started 2 years ago by Sentax
Latest reply from jumpfroggy
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poll: Implement a tail file option?
Yes : (3 votes)

60 %

No : (2 votes)

40 %

5 votes

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Sentax
Member

First off, I'd like to say that I love pn! I use it all the time every day. Thanks for such a great tool!

One of the best features is monitoring that a file has changed. It's great for me when I want to keep refreshing a log file. But what would be better is if pn could tail the file and automatically update as the file is udpated, and of course scroll the file.

It would be nice as an option and not as a default option as it could annoy some users.

Posted 2 years ago #
simon
PN Developer

There have been a few requests for this over time, and while I can see it would be useful it's also not my top priority to work on. If someone contributed a working implementation I'd consider taking it - it would also be a reasonable thing to implement as an extension/plugin.

FWIW I usually use BareTail for this purpose, it's excellent!

Posted 2 years ago #
Sentax
Member

I just tried out BareTail and it works great! Thanks for the heads up. But it would be nice to have the functionality right in PN.

Thanks again.

Posted 2 years ago #
jumpfroggy
Member

Yeah, baretail is nice... but it would be nice to have something similar to this in PN.

Posted 2 years ago #
cameos
Member

voted 'no'. pn is an editor, keep it simple as that.

for tail I recommend tailxp:
http://infiero.com/tailxp/index.html

Posted 2 years ago #
jumpfroggy
Member

I just started using tail.exe on the command line, works fine enough for me. I wouldn't really care if it weren't included in PN.

Posted 2 years ago #

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