Gordon Airporte schreef: > Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > > You might need to look at pywin32 for Windows specific ways to listen >> to "file changed" event. >> >> On Unix a quick shortcut would be to simply read the output of 'tail - >> f <file>' command... > > Ah, I forgot I have Cygwin installed, so I do have tail. Unfortunately > Windows will not let most programs save to the file while tail is > watching it, and when I force it with vim :w! the output from tail -f > does not update. Maybe I'm using it wrong.
Have you tried with tail -F instead of tail -f? With a big F it uses the name of the file instead of the file descriptor, and it keeps trying to open the file. I'm not sure if it will work, but it's worth a shot. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
