Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Gary Kline thought.org> writes: > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. > My text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less > or some GUI pager to display only 15 lines at one time. Tapping the > space bar would display another 15 lines and so on u

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:44:10AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > > > > > > > Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the > > > text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:44:10AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > > > > Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the > > text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you can't > > just tap the spacebar; is there

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:26:32AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >>On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >>>Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, > >>>b

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the > text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you can't > just tap the spacebar; is there a way around that and > turning it into a space...? > >

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Robert Bonomi on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 > > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 > > From: Gary Kline > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: variable line-display

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my "15" or sm

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > > >Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, > >but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can > >squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into. > > x

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:44:32PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chip Camden on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > > > Ne

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:37:38PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in > the file. > > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. > My text fil

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into. xterm -geometry 80x18 -e 'less -N /var/log/Xorg.0.log' Why 18 to get 15 line

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chip Camden on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > >

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:23:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <=

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in > > the file. > > > > For instance, say tha

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in > the file. > > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. > My text file is around 200

variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Gary Kline
Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in the file. For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. My text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less or some GUI page