Re: Getting view-file to act more like tail -f

[lawrence mitchell]

Burton Samograd wrote:

> Is there any way to get a view-file'd buffer to automatically reload
> when the buffer changes (instead of hitting F)?

Try (add-hook 'view-mode-hook #'turn-on-auto-revert-mode) in
your ~/.emacs.  It's not quite as fast as tail -f, auto-revert
is done on a timer, which checks every so often to see if a file
might have changed.

-- 
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>