On 2007-01-12 19:27, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2007-01-12 14:02, Peter aka SweetPete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>I've red the manpage for "top" (from heh heh "top" to bottom...), >>>and I am amazed that there is not a feature to hit '/' or '?' in >>>order to search and display only processes which match a certain >>>keyword/search term. For example, a user running top could hit '/' >>>and enter "fire", which would display processes related to >>>"firefox." >> >> That's an excellent idea :) >> >> Should we also allow for limiting by other stuff too, i.e. like the >> 'l' command in the mail/mutt mailer accepts a 'limit pattern' with a >> syntax like: >> >> >> Limiting by username or user ID >> >> ~u username only show processes of user `username' >> ~U uid only show processes of user uid >> ~U uidmin-uidmax only show processes of users minuid-maxuid > > username is already there... > > u Display only processes owned by a specific username (prompt for > username). If the username specified is simply "+", then processes > belonging to all users will be displayed.
I know. I was "thinking loudly" of a way to extend this without having to hijack the entire keyboard. If/when we have a more featureful limiting mechanism, we can certainly leave 'u' as a key binding that works exactly the same as before, for compatibility reasons. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"