Follow for log files (preview pane)

[theking2]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Consider tail -f .log
I often find myself doing a Get-Content -Wait .log to follow the content of a growing (log) file.

How cute would it be that this is build in the File Explorer pre view pane? Not even Directory Opus does that!

Scenario when this would be used?

Watch a growing (log) file for new lines being added.

Supporting information

man
PowerShell

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[zadjii-msft]

note to clint: you'd probably need to depend on us for microsoft/terminal#6999, so that we can actually create a TermControl that you can embed yourself.

[crutkas]

Thanks @zadjii-msft.

@theking2 i think anything we do here would be less performant and more overhead than just doing this via terminal window. Other issue would be which thing views a log file, While preview panes are mini-apps, only one gets the rights to be the previewer for the file type.

[Aaron-Junker]

@crutkas This actually could work with Monaco. When it sending new content to the webview every second.

[theking2]

This could indeed be done with powershell/terminal by doing something like:

            {
                "closeOnExit": "never",
                "colorScheme": "Campbell",
                "commandline": "powershell.exe \"Get-Content php_error.log -Wait\"",
                "cursorShape": "vintage",
                "guid": "{643bdc24-5415-5e5a-8420-281ffc7d4f19}",
                "name": "PHP Errors",
                "startingDirectory": "c:\\wamp\\logs",
                "suppressApplicationTitle": false,
                "useAcrylic": true
            },

Which will follow the php_error.log content. No need for a separate tool here.