Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
Ok, that works too, but COLUMNS=1000 ps -ef has a unique prefix in the history, so I can rerun it with !C Horses for courses... Neil On Mar 12, 2013 8:30 AM, "Tyler J. Wagner" wrote: > On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote: > > With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote: > With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. > > The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the > command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Consider: ps -ef | cat Rega

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Neil. On Mar 11, 2013 3:31 PM, "Tyler J. Wagner" wrote: > On 2013-03-08 15:14,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-11 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-08 15:14, Neil Greenwood wrote: > PAGER=/bin/cat man command > > Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager, but > not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps > command... In what situation does ps page the output? "ps -ef", for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-08 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Mar 7, 2013 10:08 PM, "Tyler J. Wagner" wrote: > > On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: > > man command | cat > > > > where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to > > the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I > > hope), > > Put th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: > man command | cat > > where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to > the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I > hope), Put this in your .bashrc or .profile: export PAGER=/bin/cat Now paging

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
On 07/03/13 21:14, Neil Greenwood wrote: On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, "Jim Price" wrote: That's a reasonable workaround. Curiously the problem seems to have fixed itself now, and I have no idea whether it's because of something I did or not. I did do a re-install of gnome-terminal - maybe that di

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
On 07/03/13 19:20, Andrew Woodward wrote: On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:49:37 +, Jim Price wrote: I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, "Jim Price" wrote: > > On 07/03/13 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: >> >> On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price wrote: > > >>> I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling >>> works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but >>> wheneve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
On 07/03/13 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price wrote: I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Andrew Woodward
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:49:37 +, Jim Price wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling > works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but > whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've > Googled, and discovere

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi Jim On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling > works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but > whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googled, > and discovered th

[ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
Hi, I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googled, and discovered that man uses less to display the pages, but all the thin