Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-19 Thread Stefan Mark
On 18.10.2011 18:39, Andrew Hills wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Stefan Mark m...@unserver.de wrote: For me, performance is the main issue. Drawing of 'mc' on higher resolutions (1600x1200 or 1920x1080) tooks about 10s (sometimes more) on a reasonable fast machine. Drawing 'top' took

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Hills
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: It isn't. I use terminus 16 on my computers, one with an Intel gfx card, one with an nVidia one, and they are both quite fast. The computers are fast, or st has no performance issues (and is thus fast)? --Andrew Hills

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-19 Thread Nick
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:06:25AM -0400, Andrew Hills wrote: The computers are fast, or st has no performance issues (and is thus fast)? st has no performance issues. The computers are slow, by modern standards (900Mhz CPU).

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Hills
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: st has no performance issues. The computers are slow, by modern standards (900Mhz CPU). Right, and I have a similar speed and font size (and no issues), yet users with faster machines experience degraded performance. I'm

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-19 Thread Nick
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:51:33AM -0400, Andrew Hills wrote: Recently I have discovered that, independent of the value of $TERM, I am unable to use ^C or ^\ to kill tail when following a file. I am required to ^Z, kill %%. However, no other program seems to have this problem. Has anyone else

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-19 Thread Eckehard Berns
..., which would be a good starting point to trace the problem (unless someone already knows what the problem is). I would assume the problem is the excessive redrawing of the whole terminal window. Each time you move the curser only one cell the whole screen will be redrawn into a backup

[dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread Nick
I just read about terminator http://software.jessies.org/terminator/, and thought a couple of its features sounded worth stealing (both require scrollback to be implemented): * Logging - logs of terminal sessions can be saved. It only makes sense to do this on command, rather than automatically

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread pancake
On 10/18/11 12:01, Nick wrote: I just read about terminator http://software.jessies.org/terminator/, and thought a couple of its features sounded worth stealing (both require scrollback to be implemented): * Logging - logs of terminal sessions can be saved. It only makes sense to do this on

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread Nick
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:11:55PM +0200, pancake wrote: On 10/18/11 12:01, Nick wrote: * Logging - logs of terminal sessions can be saved. It only makes sense to do this on command, rather than automatically (as terminator does). Once scrollback exists, this becomes pretty easy

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread Peter John Hartman
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:01:07AM +0100, Nick wrote: I just read about terminator http://software.jessies.org/terminator/, and thought a couple of its features sounded worth stealing (both require scrollback to be implemented): * Logging - logs of terminal sessions can be saved. It only

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread Stefan Mark
On 18.10.2011 13:15, Peter John Hartman wrote: Here's a feature request that should go in first: make st usable. For me, performance is the main issue. Drawing of 'mc' on higher resolutions (1600x1200 or 1920x1080) tooks about 10s (sometimes more) on a reasonable fast machine. Drawing 'top'

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/18/11 at 03:13pm, Stefan Mark wrote: On 18.10.2011 13:15, Peter John Hartman wrote: Here's a feature request that should go in first: make st usable. For me, performance is the main issue. Drawing of 'mc' on higher resolutions (1600x1200 or 1920x1080) tooks about 10s (sometimes more)

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread Andrew Hills
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Stefan Mark m...@unserver.de wrote: For me, performance is the main issue. Drawing of 'mc' on higher resolutions (1600x1200 or 1920x1080) tooks about 10s (sometimes more) on a reasonable fast machine. Drawing 'top' took a bit less, but not much. When doing so,

Re: [dev] st features that'd be nice

2011-10-18 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Tue 18 Oct 2011 11:01:07 AM PDT, Nick wrote: * Find - search through scrollback (maybe using regex). I find this to be one of URxvt's killer features. Alt-S brings up an interactive regexp search of the scrollback buffer: urxvtperl(3). -- To understand a program you must become both the