[SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal
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 Thanks in advance -- James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal
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.. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal
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 ;-) > > -- > - Gus > > -- James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 09:19:07AM +1100, James A Coffey wrote: > > > 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 ;-) With vi, use 'set nowrap'. This won't solve your original problem, but will allow you to peruse your logs with vi without line wraps. I know this works with vim and elvis. When someone mentions vi, they usually mean vim or one of the vi clones. Cheers, Grant -- Kaufman's First Law of Party Physics: Population density is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the keg. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] horizontal scrollbar terminal
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:43:57 +1100, Grant Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -- James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
