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