Re: How to use "tail -f" in Vim's 8.1 :terminal command window?

Brian Matthews wrote:

> On 11/23/19 10:12 AM, Matteo Landi wrote:
> > Did you try the same, tail - f, but from outside vim?
> >
> > If not wrong, vim is dumping the whole buffer to the file on save
> (not 'appending' new content) so I wouldn't be surprised it tail - f did
> not work because of it.
> >
>
> And I think by default vim renames the current file then writes to a
> completely new file, so the file you're tailing never changes, in fact
> it gets deleted. You can modify that behavior with various options
> (backup, writebackup, backupcopy). I got tail -f to show something by
> setting nobackup (which is the default) and nowritebackup (which isn't),
> then modifying a file I was tailing. Because of the way tail works, this
> would only do something useful if you're just adding lines to the file,
> but it does work.

It works fine for me. It might indeed depend on the value of
'backupcopy'.

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