Log Monitoring (tail -f) vs File Status auto detection

[nickidw]

I would like to know what is the difference between the ‘new’ Log monitoring feature (the eye icon) vs the File Status auto detection (under Settings / Preferences / MISC ), as the behaviour seems the same to me.

Both do not appear to update unless Notepadd++ is the active window, and both can scroll to the last line.

Anything I’m missing?

[Claudia Frank]

@nickidw

when searching the forum you will see that log monitoring is working like tail as long
as the underlying protocol/event processing is supporting it.

Cheers
Claudia