magrw@levels.sait.edu.au (02/20/91)
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Subject: WANTED: File scroller similar to less but with more features
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Date: 20 Feb 91 15:14:59 GMT
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I am looking for a file scroller similar to less, but with as many of the
following features as possible:
(1) CASE-INSENSITIVE string search
(2) Intelligent usage of VT100 (and/or VT220) keys such as:
(i) Cursor keys for moving around the file
(ii) PrevScrn (instead of b)
(iii) NextScrn (instead of space bar)
I need this to run on both a Sun SPARCserver 490 as well as a DECstation 5000
(running Ultrix).
All replies gratefully accepted via either email or this newsgroup.
Thanks.
George Wiley
MAGRW@LV.SAIT.EDU.AUbhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (02/21/91)
In article <15904.27c2939a@levels.sait.edu.au> magrw@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > (1) CASE-INSENSITIVE string search > (2) Intelligent usage of VT100 (and/or VT220) keys such as: > (i) Cursor keys for moving around the file > (ii) PrevScrn (instead of b) > (iii) NextScrn (instead of space bar) >I need this to run on both a Sun SPARCserver 490 as well as a DECstation 5000 >(running Ultrix). Off the top of my head: Try using vi(1), calling it with the name 'view' so it's automatically read-only. It automatically handles (i). Use the following in your setup to take care of (1), (ii) and (iii) (^F is ctrl-F, which you can get into a file by typing ^V^F and similarly for ^B and ^M): :set ic map [6~ ^F map [5~ ^B map q :q!^M map N :n add these if you still want to use b, f, and the space-bar map f ^F map b ^B map ^V ^F (ctrl-V ctrl-V space space ctrl-V ctrl-F) The setup should appear in a .exrc file, or in your EXINIT environment variable as set ic|map [6~ ^F|map [5~ ^B|map q :q!^M|map N :n If you want to hide all this and still use your .exrc for vi(1), alias 'less' and 'vi' as follows (put the following line in a file and source the file to set it, or put it in your .cshrc; csh(1) gets confused by the ^M -- which is a ctrl-M, not an upcaret and an M -- when it sees it on the command-line.): alias less 'setenv EXINIT "set ic|map [6~ ^F|map [5~ ^B|map q :q\\!^M";view' alias vi 'unsetenv EXINIT; vi' to use .exrc, or alias vi 'setenv EXINIT ...; vi' where ... is your usual EXINIT, if you prefer EXINIT over .exrc. You can't pipe to them, but less(1) has its problems with stdin, too, so you shouldn't pipe to it without some restrictive suppositions about your file, either. You also lose some things like flipping back and forth between files using N and B. (N is easy; B is a pain to deal with in vi(1)). But you gain, since you're in the editor, if you want to make a change. Just use :unmap to turn off some of these things (editing would be a mess if you didn't) and use :w! to write the changes. --Blair "Yeh. Like I'd want to start Emacs every time I wanted to flip through the funnies..."
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (02/21/91)
>>>>> On 20 Feb 91 15:19:53 GMT, magrw@levels.sait.edu.au said:
magrw> (1) CASE-INSENSITIVE string search
perhaps check out GNU Emacs view mode.
magrw> (2) Intelligent usage of VT100 (and/or VT220) keys such as:
magrw> (i) Cursor keys for moving around the file
magrw> (ii) PrevScrn (instead of b)
magrw> (iii) NextScrn (instead of space bar)
In GNU Emacs you can bind the keys every which way, for me Keypad 8 =
up one screen. Keypad 2 =down 1 screen.
I do admit that I havent got around to doing "emacs -f functionX *"
vs. "less *", where functionX makes view mode the default mode... etc.
--
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (02/21/91)
From the keyboard of magrw@levels.sait.edu.au: :X-NEWS: levels comp.unix.questions: 11109 :Path: levels!magrw :From: magrw@levels.sait.edu.au :Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions :Subject: WANTED: File scroller similar to less but with more features :Message-ID: <15903.27c29273@levels.sait.edu.au> :Date: 20 Feb 91 15:14:59 GMT :Organization: University of South Australia :Lines: 22 : :I am looking for a file scroller similar to less, but with as many of the :following features as possible: : : (1) CASE-INSENSITIVE string search less -i : (2) Intelligent usage of VT100 (and/or VT220) keys such as: : (i) Cursor keys for moving around the file : (ii) PrevScrn (instead of b) : (iii) NextScrn (instead of space bar) Sounds like you need to look at lesskey(1). --tom -- "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (02/24/91)
In article <15904.27c2939a@levels.sait.edu.au> magrw@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > >I am looking for a file scroller similar to less, but with as many of the >following features as possible: > > (1) CASE-INSENSITIVE string search > > (2) Intelligent usage of VT100 (and/or VT220) keys such as: > (i) Cursor keys for moving around the file > (ii) PrevScrn (instead of b) > (iii) NextScrn (instead of space bar) > >I need this to run on both a Sun SPARCserver 490 as well as a DECstation 5000 >(running Ultrix). You don't state what revision of 'less' you are using. I have v.123 here, and it does all the things you ask for. I've run it on assorted versions of SCO XENIX, and on SCO UNIX 3.2.2 Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpradley.jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341
wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) (02/25/91)
In article <1991Feb23.183717.26164@jpradley.jpr.com> jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: >In article <15904.27c2939a@levels.sait.edu.au> magrw@levels.sait.edu.au writes: >> >>I am looking for a file scroller similar to less, but with as many of the >>following features as possible: >> >> (1) CASE-INSENSITIVE string search >> >> (2) Intelligent usage of VT100 (and/or VT220) keys such as: >> (i) Cursor keys for moving around the file >> (ii) PrevScrn (instead of b) >> (iii) NextScrn (instead of space bar) >> >>I need this to run on both a Sun SPARCserver 490 as well as a DECstation 5000 >>(running Ultrix). > >You don't state what revision of 'less' you are using. I have v.123 here, and ^^^ Holy Cow! I just picked up less-97 a week or two ago! Where IS version 123? Is this an "official" release or some local hack? >it does all the things you ask for. > >I've run it on assorted versions of SCO XENIX, and on SCO UNIX 3.2.2 > > Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpradley.jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341 I assume this version is not Intel specific!?! -- Bill Meahan |Product Design & Testing Section Production Test Engineer |Starter Motor Engineering wwm@pmsmam | +1 313 484 9320
tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kenneth K.F. Lui) (02/26/91)
In article <1991Feb25.124408.5177@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.UUCP (Bill Meahan) writes: >Holy Cow! I just picked up less-97 a week or two ago! Where IS version 123? >Is this an "official" release or some local hack? > You can ftp v123 from scam.berkeley.edu. There's another cool version of less named "less v123magic" that has a uses a config file which determines what type of file it's reading and can run another program or programs before displaying it (i.e. you can say "less foo.Z" and v123magic will run uncompress before displaying foo). I have no idea where to get source for this version. I use it at work, but only the binaries are available, so it may be an internally-modified version. Ken ______________________________________________________________________________ tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu, tempest@walleye.ecst.csuchico.edu,|Kenneth K.F. Lui| tempest@sutro.sfsu.edu, tempest@wet.UUCP |________________|
jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (02/27/91)
In article <1991Feb25.124408.5177@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.UUCP (Bill Meahan) writes: >In article <1991Feb23.183717.26164@jpradley.jpr.com> jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: >>You don't state what revision of 'less' you are using. I have v.123 here, and > >Holy Cow! I just picked up less-97 a week or two ago! Where IS version 123? >Is this an "official" release or some local hack? Less 123 is dated 8.31.89 by Mark Nudelman, whose name has been on the source code all along, so I'd say it's "official". >>I've run it on assorted versions of SCO XENIX, and on SCO UNIX 3.2.2 >I assume this version is not Intel specific!?! No. It has assorted makefiles for dos and various *nix. Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpradley.jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341