Re: new tail-mode

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Daniel Pfeiffer <address@hidden> writes:

> I find myself repeatedly reverting some buffers as they grow.  This
> is a nuisance and means font-locking starts from scratch, often
> enough for just one extra line in a 100kb buffer :-(
>
> Since neither tail.el nor auto-revert-mode.el gave me what I need, I
> did a sort of transparent tail -f within Emacs.  You can even edit
> while the buffer grows.

What I do is `M-x shell' followed by `tail -f'.  Works like a charm,
and also allows editing.