Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Mar 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: If you like vim try less.vim ;) I have been using vim for a lot of years and did not know this either. Thanks for sharing it. So have I, but less.vim does nothing here - command not found. You have to do something like

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want to just view a file.

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Mar 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: If you like vim try less.vim ;) I have been using vim for a lot of years and did not know this either. Thanks for sharing it. raju -- So have I, but less.vim does nothing here - command not found. Anthony --

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:07:07AM -0400, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
If you like vim try less.vim ;) I have been using vim for a lot of years and did not know this either. Thanks for sharing it. So have I, but less.vim does nothing here - command not found. You have to do something like /usr/share/vim/vim70/macros/less.sh file.txt I found this by

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:15:10AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Mar 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: If you like vim try less.vim ;) I have been using vim for a lot of years and did not know this either. Thanks for sharing it. raju --

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/03/2008, Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to see the right part of the text in less -S you should use the right arrow. If you really insist on scrollbar, then any graphic text editing program would do.For example kate in KDE can be configured not to fold the lines. I'm pretty

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread William Pursell
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can view the file there. Actually, it opens in an editor defined by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables (in that order), defaulting to vi if neither is set. In my

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: On 10/03/2008, Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to see the right part of the text in less -S you should use the right arrow. If you really insist on scrollbar, then any graphic text editing program would do.For example

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11/03/2008, Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meant wrapping. The OP was looking for wrapping option as far as I understand... There's another decent package for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:23 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 10/03/2008, Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to see the right part of the text in less -S you should use the right arrow. If you really insist on scrollbar, then any graphic text editing program would do.For example kate in

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:08:18PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: If you like vim try less.vim ;) I have been using vim for a lot of years and did not know this either. Thanks for sharing it. So have I, but less.vim does nothing here - command not found.

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11/03/2008, Richard Hector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends whose terminology. Vim calls that folding, and maybe kate does too, but the less manpage uses folding to mean 'displaying the rest of the line on the next line' - different from wrapping in that it doesn't insert newlines into

graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
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

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, 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

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:32:49AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, 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

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Pasotto wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:32:49AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, 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,

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, 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

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, 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

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can view the file there. This is an awesome trick. I did not know about it before. Thanks for sharing it. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can view the file there. This is an awesome trick. I did not know about it before. Thanks for sharing it. raju If you like

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Kevin Mark wrote: In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can view the file there. Actually, it opens in an editor defined by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables (in that order), defaulting to vi if neither is set. In my system it starts emacs, for

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andrei Popescu wrote: If you like vim try less.vim ;) I have been using vim for a lot of years and did not know this either. Thanks for sharing it. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI shared this with us all: --} Kevin Mark wrote: --} In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can --} view the file there. --} --}   --} --} Actually, it opens in an editor defined by the VISUAL or EDITOR --} environment

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, 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

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, 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