On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:59 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:36:56PM -0500, Josh Berkus wrote: >> On 12/02/2015 05:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> > Don't think I agree. Suppose that you have a wider-than-screen table >> > and you use a pager to scroll left and right in that. If we shorten the >> > dashed lines, then once you scroll to the right of wherever they stop, >> > you lose that visual cue separating the rows. This matters a lot if >> > only a few of the column values are very wide: everywhere else, there's >> > gonna be lots of whitespace. >> >> What pager lets me scroll right infinitely? Because I wanna install that. > > I don't know about infinitely, but at least with the -S (no wrap) > option, less lets you use left- and right-arrow, prefixed by > multipliers, if you like, to scroll horizontally > > And now I have learned something new about a pager I've used every day > for decades.
And even if you don't specify -S, 'less' will jump into that mode anyway as soon as you hit the right array. It starts out wrapping, but hit the right arrow and it undoes the wrap. So I often do hit '1' right arrow to get out of the wrap situation described above. I do lose the leftmost character on the screen. Then you can left-arrow all the way back to the left, and it jumps back into wrap mode. Pretty darn useful at times. Now, if I could just find a way to tell 'less' after-the-fact "pretend I started you up with the -X flag". Once I find the part I want, I want to quit the pager without clearing that stuff off of the screen. Sometimes. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
