branch: elpa/logview
commit 1f7c9da092357a6819587be7c6e4eda9ea1bfc22
Author: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonys...@gmail.com>
Commit: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonys...@gmail.com>

    Mention recent changes in documentation as appropriate.
---
 README.adoc |  6 ++++++
 logview.el  | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 5d84dd41a8..a5391aefcb 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ see if anything goes wrong.  The easiest way to figure it 
out is to
 add a few filters using commands described earlier and then open this
 buffer with `f` and see how they are represented.
 
+Changes in the buffer popped up with `f` (or <<thread-narrowing,Y>>)
+are previewed in the main buffer on-the-fly.  If you don’t like this,
+customize variable `logview-preview-filter-changes`, toggle this in
+the main buffer using `o p` or in the filter buffer with `C-c C-p`.
+
 === Filter regexp details
 
 Regular expressions can be matched against entry parts either
@@ -502,6 +507,7 @@ changed in each individual buffer.
 * Toggle Auto-Revert Tail mode: `o t`
 * Toggle “copy only visible text”: `o v`
 * Toggle “search only in messages”: `o m`
+* Toggle “preview filtering results”: `o p`
 * Toggle “show ellipses”: `o e`
 
 === Miscellaneous
diff --git a/logview.el b/logview.el
index 9e9031c7e7..2d4f6edc09 100644
--- a/logview.el
+++ b/logview.el
@@ -229,6 +229,17 @@ format
     mode adds the field itself, it also prepends it with a space,
     which might be incorrect for some special custom submodes.
 
+    Regular expressions to match specified entry pieces are
+    generated by Logview based on surrounding characters (e.g.
+    spaces in the example for Log4j except for \"THREAD\", which
+    is surrounded by brackets).  However, if these are not
+    suitable in your case, for \"NAME\", \"THREAD\" and \"IGNORED\"
+    you can explicitly specify the desired regexp.  For example:
+
+        <<RX:IGNORED:[a-z]+>>
+
+    will ignore one or more Latin letters, but not anything else.
+
 levels  [may be optional]
 
     Level mapping (see `logview-additional-level-mappings') used

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