From: Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T04:15:50+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Logtails 0.4 : the time saving release

Hi,

Logtails 0.4 has arrived ( http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=500 ), and 
it now contains all functionalities I need and wanted to put in. The 
most important addition of this release is that it is now possible to 
save sessions. When you save the session to a file (YAML format), you 
can reopen it later and have all your tails and their respective tabs 
restored, including the regexps you specified for the tabs. This is 
really time saving! When you have tabs already open, and you restore a 
session, the tabs saved in the session are added to the already existing 
tabs.

Sessions don't save the output displayed though. But you can manually 
save each tab's content to a (local) file.

The interface to open a remote tab is now the same as the one used for 
local tails. You can even browse the remote filesystem to choose the 
file to watch (all thanks to KDE's kio slaves).

There's also an indicator for when a tab's content has changed, and you 
can insert blank line to the tail's output, just as you can when you 
press enter in a terminal running tail -f.

Here's the changelog:

-Save and reload sessions
-Local and remote tails are started through the same interface
-Open a file by browsing the file system (local and remote)
-Insert blank lines in the active tab by pressing enter
-Insert a blank line in all tabs with CTRL+ENTER
-Save the tab's content to a file
-Tab label of remote files don't show the whole path
-Star prepended to the tab label when changes occur. Star removed when 
tab is activited

The only things I plan to add are:
- splitting, so you can display several tails side by side
- fixes and cleanups

links:
summary page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/logtails/
download page: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=500

Raph