SnakeTail ver. 1.9.0 is now available, and introduces some new features:
- Quick jump shortcut has changed to ALT+KeyUp/KeyDown (Instead of CTRL+KeyUp/KeyDown)
- Quick jump also works for EventLog where it jumps between Warnings and Errors
- Launch external tools on keyword match (Ex. play sound).
- Line coloring without being ‘Alert highlight’ (Ex. color line green for success)
A long expected release! Thanks for this, I use SnakeTail on a daily basis.
Just found this utility and it is very useful when coding while monitoring several log files in realtime. I’ve looked at most of the windows tail utils and this is the best, very fast and small footprint.
Thanks for all your efforts.
Adrian
Very useful utility, thanks!
Great tool – use it a lot.
One suggestion:
Change marking / copying text so that only highlighted text will be copied to the clipbard (and not complete lines)
Thank you for this!
Where can I find the settings file? I want to copy my custom highlights to another installation.
See AppData for current user
http://snakenest.com/2011/snaketail-ver-1-3-released/
No doubts, Snaketail is the best tail utility for MS Windows. I use it every days!
Thanks for the good job!
Hey m8, good work!
But there is something i miss. Its a clear Button, or a somehing to make some space between old lines and new lines. Somehing like this would be great!
Thank you!
You can setup an external tool that gets the line-number as parameter, and then it can modify the log-file and insert some extra blank lines.
Others has used the bookmark feature to highlight a certain location.
Best Windows tail program I have found!
Would it be possible to add the ability for it to read color codes in file? I mostly use it for PHP debugging, and being able to colorize the output from PHP would be awesome.
If you changed the color escape-codes to recognizable tokens like [ERR] [WAR] [OK], then you could easily setup keyword highlighting, and just save as default configuration.
A really nice program!!
I miss one feature: At the moment it’s possible to display each line with a different color when matching a word or sentence.
Is it possible for you to implement a feature where multiple colors can be displayed on the same line?
Single word highlighting is not directly supported by the WinForms ListView. See also https://github.com/snakefoot/snaketail-net/issues/12
Love the app!
It would be great if there were some way to copy the full pathname into the clipboard. Perhaps right-click o the filename tab?
You can right-click in the file-contents-windows, and in the context-menu choose “Copy as path”.
Hello,
I created a session to monitoring 5 text files. All settings are by default. The files are updated every 5 minutes by an external process. But snaketail does not update the files avery 5 minutes. It behavior is erratic. Sometimes some displays are updated, sometimes non of them are updated. I appreciate if you can give me some support. I could send you session .xml file and screencaptions. SnakeTail version1.9.4.0. Regards
Best place to get support is through github:
https://github.com/snakefoot/snaketail-net/issues
I didn’t find option to wrap long log entry to the window size. Is it possible?
No right now there is a hard limit of 1000 characters to make the scrolling logic simpler:
https://github.com/snakefoot/snaketail-net/issues/16
https://github.com/snakefoot/snaketail-net/issues/26
Do you still remain active maintaining SnakeTail, or would one need to get involved in the GIT-hosted development?
Hi, is there are documentation of the commandline parameters? Or how can I make a shortcut with a sved session?
You can see the source-code here:
https://github.com/snakefoot/snaketail-net/blob/2ad62da1574e78db41061f21ed2178cc32c481c3/SnakeTail/MainForm.cs#L77
But you just provide the path to the session-xml-file (must have file-ext xml) and it will load the session.