Add auto-refresh capability for buffers

[willi297]

It would be really nice to enable auto-refresh on a particular buffer, if I am monitoring a log file. Obviously, this should be off by default, but it would be nice to be able to enable this on a given buffer. Also, adding an application command so that I could create a key binding and access it from plugins would be very handy as well.

[jps]

It's there as the 'autoReloadChanged' option. You can set it for the current buffer by doing:

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view.options().set('autoReloadChanged', True)


in the console. You can also bind this to a key by using something along the lines of:

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<binding key="f10" command="toggle autoReloadChanged"/>


[willi297]

Thanks! Will do...

[willi297]

This kinda works, but only refreshed when focus changes to the buffer being monitored. I would like to have a log file open and have it continuously update at some interval. Once per second would be cool.

[Dan Phillips]

willi297, it might be worthwhile to investigate dedicated log viewers. Log viewing is possibly sufficiently different to text editing for it warrant a specialized tool.

The best log viewer that I found after evaluating about five of them was BareTailPro from Bare Metal Software for $35:

http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretailpro/index.php

I'm not connected with them in any way. I just like their product.