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hansjorg
Tried this for a while the last time I saw this posted somewhere, but went back to using tail.

Using less +F you're not able to add blank lines to the terminal. Seems kind of silly, but it's very useful to see if there has been any output since last time you took a look.

borkabrak
This is exactly the reason I've never switched to using `less +F`, as well. When I tail a log, I'm usually looking for sections of it corresponding to particular test runs. Adding blank lines or even rows of dashes/equal signs lets me make the distinction clearly visible.
ajbetteridge
Same here. I'm normally using "tail -f | grep something" which less +f doesn't seem to handle.
ayanamist
If file is very large like several gigabytes, `tail` is much faster than `less`
DArcMattr
I'm still going to use tail -f, in tmux. I get the log stream, and I get tmux's search & movement.