On Sep 25, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Mark van Dijk wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:53:20 +0100 > Simon Hobson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Christ Schlacta wrote: >>> I was reading through the config files, and noticed that many of them >>> would be well suited by being replaced or supplemented with an >>> (optionally optional) shiny new XML format that would allow the user >>> to specify only the needed attributes and not have to fill in -s >>> where not needed. Would prevent such mishaps as 1-too-many or >>> 1-too-few -s resulting in entries being placed in the column, and as >>> I understand it perl already has simple to use XML tools. >> >> Perhaps it's just me being somewhat "old fashioned" but I prefer flat >> format files and find them a lot easier to work with. Mind you, part >> of that may be that I'm used to using unix text tools for working >> with files - and they just don't work with XML. > > I concur. Furthermore I'd like to suggest a nice trick. >
In emacs, I simply ^X 2 (open a second 'window') and resize the upper window to just show the column headings. The bottom window can then be scrolled and the headings are always in view at the top of the screen. Problem is that I widen some of the columns and now the heading won't fit on the screen unless I use a very small font. -Tom Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
