Peter Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 May 2000 at 13:52:17 +1000
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> > Peter Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 May 2000 at 11:56:47 +1000
> > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Kins Orekhov wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Why not just store the logs in there accustamp or multilog form and
> > > > > convert them to localtime ONLY when you need to look at them.
> > > >
> > > > Because we look at them too often :)
> > >
> > > And can't you look at them by passing them through tai64nlocal each
> > > time? Can you spell "shell script wrapper"? :)
> >
> > Except I don't usually look at those log files by starting up a new
> > instance of some program; I usually look at them by calling them into
> > a buffer in an already-running instance of an editor.
>
> And you editor can't read in the results of a program?
I can think offhand of a couple of ways of doing it, but all of them
are grossly inefficient and take lots of keystrokes. There may well
be an easy way I'm overlooking, too. Nothing exotic, I'm an emacs
user. I'm not starting a new instance, I'm visiting the log file from
my existing instance.
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