Stephen

That would be very useful indeed.

+1 - really nice feature to have 

What's wrong with having tail -f running in a terminal window next to Sublime Text? I don't get this idea that the same program must do absolutely everything. Do we want Sublime Text to be the new Emacs?

There is no sensible tail -f for Windows.

And searching from plain tail output is a pain, having the same text inside Sublime Text would allow us to use its powerful search tools on the tailed file.

Cygwin or MSYS maybe?

I refuse to disagree, but the use case is simply "poll the file automatically" rather than "poll on focus" if a follow flag is set for the buffer.

yes you can have a tail -f running in a terminal , good for you , go for it, tickle yourself to death with it even :) 

BUT i'm not looking for an more integrated alternative solution as i already know about using a terminal window, and all the tail command switches as everyone who can read this thread i imagine. 

But to have a function like this in a document window, with syntax highlighting and easily scrollable using the side map view is a feature that would probably sell the product better. 

My question to the forum was have this functionality included in the next version as a nice to have.

For you to basically come here and say "whats the point , we can do this instead" is not in the true flavour of helping to make a good piece of software better.  

I dont remember writing "sublime text does not have a tail -f function" can anyone help me with an alternative workaround ?

Any ways I posted this  7 + months back and it seems to be drawing some positive attention to a few people so every one if you agree with me write something here. 

If you do not have something positive to say on it then go do something else.