On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: > >>>> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. > >>> > >>> Are you sure? > >>> > >>> This is what I see here on line 47: > >>> > >>> "status=LEVEL > >>> > >>> The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses > >>> everything but error messages, 'noxfer' suppresses the final > >>> transfer > >>> statistics, 'progress' shows periodic transfer statistics" > >>> > >>> I find this useful in seeing the transfer speed drop in real time as the > >>> cache gets saturated. > >> > >> Ahhh, I didn't see the status part. It's sort of hiding in a > >> subsection. At least I know now that the version I have installed has > >> this option. > >> > >> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror. It displays > >> like a webpage and is much easier to search through. > >> > >> Thanks for pointing that out. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > > > Yes, I also liked the old Konqueror interface. Searching for keywords > > e.g. > > "progress" within man pages works if you preface the keyword with "/": > > > > /progress > > > > will find it and "n" or "Shift+n" will jump forward and backward to any > > other instances in the man page. > > That doesn't work here. I can type in /progress but it just shows up at > the bottom.
Yes, it shows at the bottom until you hit enter to execute the search. Then it highlights the next instance of the searched string. Just like Vim/Vi does. Hmm ... I wonder if I have set up some special environment parameter on my systems and forgotten about it. :-/
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