From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T10:00:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Logtails 0.4 : the time saving release

Bauduin Raphael wrote:

> 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
Good to see the app progressing rapidly - 4 releases with lots of extra
functionality added in a short time - it must be RAD. And I hope you can
tell people at FOSDEM about your experiences..

Maybe I can carry on tweaking the KDevelop based 'long winded release'
version that has the full KDE build system and so on, as it's a good
example app. For instance, KDE has its own mechanism for saving and
restoring session details and configuration settings, which you could use
instead of yaml.

-- Richard