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By the way, wouldn't using the Document Selector be somewhat better for the manipulation of 100 open files instead of using Document Tabs? Yes indeed. And I'm actually doing it this way sometimes. Just didn't want to overly emphasize the irrelevant details. But, now that you're talking of it: For l...

Thanks for your help with ideas. textpad.exe -am "filename.log"(9999999999,1) This is not so bad. And it works - I just tested it. But. I usually define document classes, like "LogFile"=*.log, and assign file type associations for TextPad, so I can double click the files in explo...

abramson wrote: Perhaps you do not wish the date insertion?

Guillermo

That would not be useful for me because then the file is opened AND modified, which prevents the cool auto-reload feature, after my external applications write new log entries into the file.

I would like the option to manually reload files, ie only update when I want to. Preferably with a keyboard shortcut rather than having to open File That's already there. The menu entry File->Revert reloads the current file. You can easily define any keyboard shortcut for this command in Preference...

Indeed I have *.log configured as a separate document class. And I agree that a setting for the document class (e.g. "jump to end of opened file") would be a good alternative to the command line argument.

I also used baretail occasionally. But nothing compares to TexPad.

I'm using TextPad to monitor lots of log files. There are 3 little changes needed for this purpose: 1.) a command line argument that tells TextPad to immediately jump to the last line, after opening the file. --> currently I always need to press Ctrl-End, for each file. *edit*, better: I would like ...