On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 09:19:07AM +1100, James A Coffey wrote: > > > with `truncate-lines' set to true, but thats a bit of a sledgehammer > > if you aren't already using it for some other reason.. > > A bit of a vi man myself. would rather not have to learn emacs just > to read log files ;-)
With vi, use 'set nowrap'. This won't solve your original problem, but will allow you to peruse your logs with vi without line wraps. I know this works with vim and elvis. When someone mentions vi, they usually mean vim or one of the vi clones. Cheers, Grant -- Kaufman's First Law of Party Physics: Population density is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the keg. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
