Re: [SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal

2004-12-30 Thread James A Coffey
Thanks Gus,

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:44:15 +1100, Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 At Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:08:42 +1100, James A Coffey wrote:

 
 Try xconsole for a simple light-weight solution.  I'd use (x)emacs

A little too lght-weight.  But the functionality is right.  Is it
possible to get this
in a terminal emulator ??.  It is a bit inconvenient to do all grep /perl 
filtering and then write the filtered logs to a file so I can read
them with xconsole.

 with `truncate-lines' set to true, but thats a bit of a sledgehammer
 if you aren't already using it for some other reason..

A bit of  a vi man myself.  would rather not have to learn emacs just
to read log files ;-)
 
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Re: [SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal

2004-12-30 Thread James A Coffey
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:43:57 +1100, Grant Byers
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 I know this works with vim and elvis. When someone mentions vi, they
 usually mean vim or one of the vi clones.

Yep I am using vim.

I think I have found an answer
http://splodge.fluff.org/~phil/terminator/
a java terminal emulator that has wait for it
horizontal scrollbars  Now if this guy can do it surely the
xterm/gnome/kde developers can figure out how to at least 
give you the option.  But from the postings on the konsole-dev newsgroup
it is just to hard. ;-)

 
 Cheers,
 Grant

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[SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal

2004-12-29 Thread James A Coffey
Hi

I have been using Linux for a number of years and the only gripe
I have is that I can not find a terminal emulator that has horizontal 
scroll bars or I can't find away to configure my environment so that 
lines scroll horizontally and I can scroll through them using arrow 
keys for example. Why would I want them I hear you ask ?
Simply because when you are tailing a log file ( eg syslog from cisco
routers or worse snmp traps) having a line wrap makes viewing the logs
very difficult.  All I am after is something like xnmevent viewer from
HP that doesn't wrap lines but alllows you to scroll horizontally
without stopping the real time logs.

I have tried the following
less -F (works but have to stop reading the logfile when scrolling horizontally)
set horizontal-scroll-mode on (only scrolls on command line not log output)
A large xterm that wraps across 2 virtual desktops (ugly)

This has to be a common requirement but I can not find an answer anywhere 

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Re: [SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal

2004-12-29 Thread Angus Lees
At Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:08:42 +1100, James A Coffey wrote:
 I have been using Linux for a number of years and the only gripe
 I have is that I can not find a terminal emulator that has horizontal 
 scroll bars or I can't find away to configure my environment so that 
 lines scroll horizontally and I can scroll through them using arrow 
 keys for example. Why would I want them I hear you ask ?
 Simply because when you are tailing a log file ( eg syslog from cisco
 routers or worse snmp traps) having a line wrap makes viewing the logs
 very difficult.  All I am after is something like xnmevent viewer from
 HP that doesn't wrap lines but alllows you to scroll horizontally
 without stopping the real time logs.

Try xconsole for a simple light-weight solution.  I'd use (x)emacs
with `truncate-lines' set to true, but thats a bit of a sledgehammer
if you aren't already using it for some other reason..

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