Is it possible to set filetype & syntax for :MetalsToggleLogs?

[jsatk]

Basically the title. If you run :MetalsToggleLogs it tails the file in a split and has no filetype or syntax. If you open it via :vs .metals/metals.log it has filetype=log and syntax=log. Is there a way to get syntax highlight for log via :MetalsToggleLog? Or is that just not do-able because of tail? If it's the latter I wonder if there's a way to use bat if the user has it to produce syntax highlighted logs. 🤔

[ckipp01]

This is totally doable. For example I just tested this with:

:vsp +set\ ft=log term://tail -f .metals/metals.log

Which will open the split, set the ft, and then enter term and tail the log. It should be as simple as changing this line to reflect it

nvim-metals/lua/metals.lua

Line 172 in 377d7f9

api.nvim_command([[vsp term://tail -f .metals/metals.log]])

[jsatk]

Well hot damn. Thank you.

[tkolleh]

How can the split be set to s when using telescope?

[ckipp01]

Hey @tkolleh I'm actually not sure. The ability to control the split to vsp or sp was recently added and works when doing :MetalsToggleLogs sp for example, but I haven't yet look into how to pass an arg with telescope look this. Feel free to create a feature request for this.