Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-26 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2013-04-26 23:11, hiro wrote: > just mod your shell to always copy all stdout of commands into a temp > file, then open the file with less after one of these stupidly long > commands. Or run them via 'at' Or run 'script' when you login And sed out all the terminal carp later on.

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-26 Thread hiro
and a seperate one for stderr if you like...

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-26 Thread hiro
> I use less for scrollback generally and it's fine. The reason it is > useful for me to have an alternative is for cases where output is > unexpectedly large, and rerunning the process isn't practical. Also > getting lots of unexpected stderr output won't be handled well by > less by default. jus

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-26 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:47:32 +0200 Nick wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 01:45:04PM +0300, Edgaras wrote: > > Frankly I'm now I'm fairly interested why would people need scroll back. I > > do not use tmux or screen. Well I use dvtm but I dont use scroll back > > functionality there.

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-26 Thread Nick
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 01:45:04PM +0300, Edgaras wrote: > Frankly I'm now I'm fairly interested why would people need scroll back. I do > not use tmux or screen. Well I use dvtm but I dont use scroll back > functionality there. I find that "less" is mostly sufficient for my needs. > And apps li

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-26 Thread Edgaras
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Nick wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:15:13AM +0800, Patrick Haller wrote: > > On 2013-04-25 20:05, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > > > while trying to copy some stuff from iotop I came to the idea of having > > > some ??halt?? function in st. This is like t

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-26 Thread Nick
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:15:13AM +0800, Patrick Haller wrote: > On 2013-04-25 20:05, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > > while trying to copy some stuff from iotop I came to the idea of having > > some ??halt?? function in st. This is like the ??halt?? in 9term, where > > ev??? > > erything will st

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-25 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2013-04-25 20:05, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > while trying to copy some stuff from iotop I came to the idea of having > some ??halt?? function in st. This is like the ??halt?? in 9term, where ev??? > erything will stand still but the terminal is working on the output in > the background. Why

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-25 Thread Mihail Zenkov
2013/4/25, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net>: > Greetings. > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:15:37 +0200 Nimrod Omer > wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: >> >> > Anyone has ever needed such a function and considers it worth to >> > be >> > added to s

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-25 Thread random832
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013, at 14:15, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Nice joke. Try to implement a scrollback buffer without bugs and flaw‐ > lessly. > > > Sincerely, > > Christoph Lohmann The buffer's the easy part. What's hard is actually implementing scrolling. I've been tempted to hack in a way to

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-25 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:15:37 +0200 Nimrod Omer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > > > Anyone has ever needed such a function and considers it worth to be > > added to st? > > > > Oh, I've needed such a function--but I've also ne

Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-25 Thread Nimrod Omer
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Anyone has ever needed such a function and considers it worth to be > added to st? > Oh, I've needed such a function--but I've also needed a scroll-back buffer.

[dev] [st] RFC halt function

2013-04-25 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings comrades, while trying to copy some stuff from iotop I came to the idea of having some »halt« function in st. This is like the »halt« in 9term, where ev‐ erything will stand still but the terminal is working on the output in the background. Anyone has ever needed such a functio