> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:40:43 +0300 > From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 2005-05-12 09:33, Scot Hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 5/12/05, Tuomo Latto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Dominic Marks wrote: > >>>>This includes at least the following changes (some not visible): > >>>> > >>>> + The entire header line is limited to the window width too. > >>>> + The USERNAME column is hard-limited to 8 characters. > >>... > >>> If this behaviour could be turned on and off, I'd be very happy. > >> > >> How about making it a command line parameter? The field size, I mean. > > > > How about using the "-w" flag to increase the size? Similar to the > > way that ps uses it now (i.e. ps -axwww). > > Cool tip. Thanks :)
Please, NO! top(1) is a screen oriented command that will run (badly) in line mode. While I have often questioned the advisability of '-w' in ps(1), it does make some sense as ps(1) tends to produce line oriented output. top(1) could check the width of the display and tailor the display to that width. May screen based tools already do this and it provides a lot of flexibility. It's best to check the width for width on every update so that the screen (if its a soft terminal) may be increased and the display re-written to take advantage of that, on the fly. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
