Re: made a siphon module

Tiger,

Thanks for the suggestions.  I don't like using less, because it opens
a new buffer for each file, requiring me to both refresh AND switch
file buffers.  Remember, I'm watching 8 characters, and more than one
type of data for each. As far as I know, tail is no good, because the
file is truncated, not appended to.  I do like being able to search in
less, so I've been doing cat *.scorefiles.siphon | less to put it all
in one buffer.
However, I've never heard of swatch, and am checking it out as I write
this.  Installing it was a bit of a pain, with all the modules.  It
may be exactly what I've been looking for.
I tried looking at gnu awacs and xlogmaster, but the former's URL
doesn't work, and the latter has outdated header styles.

Ben


On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:08:12 +0100 (MET), Tiger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Btw, what do you use to look at the files?  I am getting lots of
> > output (like from 8 character's score command), and it's too much.  I
> > like cat *.score*  | less, but that doesn't refresh automatically.
> i am not using your plugin or anything, but for watching log files (as these
> files are) there are three options i am using now and again:
> 
> 1) tail -f filename  # just continues writing the contents of filename to
> the screen, but no fancy moving-around there
> 
> 2) less filename  # then press [F] -- like tail -f, but normal less commands
> still work
> 
> 3) swatch filename  # fancy logfile watching tool, with colorizing and all,
> essentially combines the two above and is very sophisticated. have a look at
> the manpage.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tiger.
> 
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