Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:31:39 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make long ddb not suck Message-ID: <XFMail.20030731123139.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030731182956.T5869@gamplex.bde.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 31-Jul-2003 Bruce Evans wrote: >> I have a patch that adds a simple paging facility to ddb at the >> db_printf() level using a one-shot callback mechanism. It includes >> a simple paging callback that rearms itself based on the users >> input (space does another page, enter another line). I've used this >> facility to replace the hand-rolled paging in 'ps', 'show pci', and >> 'show ktr'. The patch is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ddb.patch >> >> Comments? > > I like it. It also needs to have some idea of line lengths, so that > 20-line pages with too-long lines don't scroll off 25-line terminals. That's harder. :) That might can be added in the future however. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.20030731123139.jhb>