Package: htop
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
I have previously reported a wishlist item for less()ing or tail()ing
files from the list of open files of a process as produced by lsof:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641929
This report was tagged WONTFIX on the grounds that showing files goes
beyond the scope of a _process_ viewer. I can agree with this rationale.
However, a typical scenario of (my) htop use is to inspect processes to
find out which (say log-) files they have open -- in order to inspect
the content of those files. I also run gpm courtesy of which I can
copy-paste file paths from htop's lsof screen into another console for
running less on that file. However, while positioning the mouse cursor
for selecting a path to copy-paste the list of open files may change and
thereby the position of the desired path to copy-paste moves away from
under the mouse cursor. This can get rather irritating on processes busy
opening/closing files :-)
Hence my desire to be able to "freeze" InfoScreen instances - after which
they don't auto-refresh anymore until "unfreeze" is commanded.
Makes sense ?
(BTW, this applies to all screens, except the lsof one makes for a good
example)
Thanks for considering,
Karsten
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'),
(500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages htop depends on:
ii libc6 2.22-6
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160319-1
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160319-1
htop recommends no packages.
Versions of packages htop suggests:
ii lsof 4.89+dfsg-0.1
ii strace 4.10-3
-- no debconf information
