I agree a “tail” feature would be useful, however Windows isn’t really set up to handle tailing of files like a Unix system is. However, you can kind of get this to work the way you want. Under Settings > Preferences > MISC. under the File Status Auto-Detection you can enable the “Update Silently” and “Scroll to last line after update” options. Not perfect but it is at least helpful.

Hello Joseph,

May be I’m totally wrong, but are you talking about the Search - Find in Files… option ( CTRL + SHIFT + F ) of Notepad++ ?

Once this Find in Files windows is opened :

Just choose the expression to search for, the search mode, and some other options

Choose the directory where to search, and, possibly, in all its sub-folders, too

You may also choose one, or more, filter(s), as, for instance, *.xml , abc*.txt

And, as soon as you click on the Find All button, the Find result window is displayed, at bottom of the screen, with all the lines, of all the files, accordingly to the chosen directory and filter(s), containing the search string or regex !

Then, in the Find result dialog, just click on any line to open this specific file, in N++, at the location of the search string. You may also right-click, in the Find result dialog, and choose the option Open all !

Best Regards,

Guy038

I’m sorry I meant Ctrl + H (not Ctrl + R).