Text editor in Windows with real time update?

Question

What's a good text editor in Windows that automatically updates the view whenever the opened file has been modified by another process? I need this to watch the output of my program.

Answer 1

If you like using a mouse, Notepad++ is great

If you're happier with the keyboard, for me, it has to be Emacs. Here's the download for Windows.

To use the feature in Emacs, add the following to your .emacs:

(global-auto-revert-mode t)

There are lots of people at work who like Textpad but I don't understand why, it doesn't even have column editing.

Answer 2

What I use is snaketail. It can update in real time several files, even without the focus.