[Toybox] Fwd: [New Toy - patch] add ps & watch

[David Seikel]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:55:24 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 08/20/2013 04:46:20 AM, Ashwini Sharma wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> > 
> >   Attached are the patches for _watch_  and _ps_ command.
> > 
> > Sent _ps_ again, just in case you lost the last one. This one also  
> > have a
> > copyright update.
> 
> I planned to do watch.c after doing less.c because both have the  
> similar "printing a chunk of a larger screen" logic. If your command  
> output produces too many lines, it shouldn't scroll off, but given
> that it can wrap around to produce more lines, you can't just count
> lines. For example:
> 
>    watch 'python -c "print 100*\"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\""'
> 
> This version just scrolls off. It doesn't capture the output and
> make an attempt to format it. But toybox needs that logic for less,
> more, vi, editing command line history...

I've been thinking about what you said before about my large editor and
screen handling blob.  I think I have found a way to at least make one
or two much smaller blobs to help ease it into toybox.  Finding the
time to get to it is a problem we are all too familiar with.  I'll get
there, I want to actually use it myself.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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