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Re: View log files with emacs
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Filipp Gunbin |
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Re: View log files with emacs |
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Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:06:26 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) |
On 17/02/2015 16:37 +0100, Eike wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have to look at some log files more often now and was wondering if
> there are some handy things for emacs in that regard? I'm aware of
> log4j-mode, but couldn't find more. It's for java (logback and log4j)
> log files so I'd like to do fold stacktraces etc and also remove certain
> parts I'm not interested in to make the file smaller (we seem to log
> more useless than useful stuff…).
Hi,
I'm not aware of special modes for e.g. java log files (although I do
read them very often), but there are certainly some handy general
things:
1) `auto-revert-tail-mode' - see its doc for the description. Great for
looking at a growing log. In fact, you don't need `less' or `tail -f'
with it any more. See also `auto-revert-remote-files' variable. You
might also want to set `auto-revert-verbose' to nil.
2) `vlf' package (View Large Files). See its description. Very
convenient for huge log files. I use it quite rarely, though.
3) Combined with Tramp (and grep :) these provide enough functionality
for me.
Filipp