viewing log files within Vim

Some plugins that can help:

• vim-log-highlighting — adds generic highlighting, based on recognition of things like dates, times, and words like "ERROR" or "WARNING"

Some tips:

• To make Vim work like tail -f, run one of these: (more explanation)
  • :set autoread | au CursorHold * checktime | set updatetime=1000 | call feedkeys("lh")
  • :set autoread | au CursorHold * checktime | set updatetime=1000 | call feedkeys("G") (this one constantly scrolls to the bottom, which can actually be irritating unless it's something that's easy to toggle on/off)
• To automatically fold the loooooong Java stack traces, run :set foldmethod=indent