Implementing a continuous "revert-buffer" aka Textpad

Question

One of my colleagues uses TextPad, and one feature I found really useful is the Auto-Reload. (The feature has been described in this SO quesion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1246083/alternative-to-textpads-prompt-to-reload-file). Basically, it keeps reloading the file without any prompt from the user, which is really helpful when monitoring log files that are updated in real-time. Is there something similar available for Emacs? If not, can anyone whip up the required elisp magic?

Answer 1

M-x auto-revert-mode

I should add that for log tails, there is the more specific auto-revert-tail-mode, and that if you like it as a general feature (my case), you can turn on global-auto-revert-mode, to revert all buffers. Beware of remote files in that case.

Answer 2

If you want auto-revert to apply everywhere you can also use global-auto-revert-mode. Add

(global-auto-revert-mode 1)

to your .emacs