Reverse tail #2498
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Reverse tail
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I wonder if it's feasible to support a "reverse tail" by which I mean when tailing, the first message appears at the top and the next message appears beneath it and so on.
Once the page is full, the page is scrolled upward to accommodate the next message.
This would match what I used to see when working on minicomputers in the 70s and 80s, where logs were auto scrolling "dumb" terminals and the writing always began a the top.
This also corresponds to how some people read data, starting at the top and working their way down the page, where everything "before" is above and everything after is "beneath" (and that is also how command line systems behave), it's something I'd love if it were possible, I'm a huge fan of real time log displays.
I'd like to be able to make it look like this ordering:
rather than this:
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