Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Gary Kline kline at 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

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: Need help

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. xterm

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 kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip

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

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 kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: variable line-display

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: snip 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 cr and turning it into a space...?

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, but here's where

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: snip 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

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: snip Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you

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 pager

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 lines

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 that my

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 = the

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 of lines

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 chunks of N

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

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 file is