Rick Pasotto wrote: > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively > long lines and I'd like to be able to left/right scroll rather than have > the lines wrapped. What program could I call from the command line that > would open such a viewer on a given file? (My desktop is gnome but kde > is installed.) >
How about editing the file with gvim instead of less? If you are piping the output of a certain command to less, then also you can employ gvim. For example, instead of doing command | less you can do command | gvim - hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
