Terminals

[Jack Coates]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 07:35, Jack Kern wrote:
> ...>>    
> >>
> >
> >what's going on? You shouldn't need a horizontal scrollbar, practically
> >anything will linewrap the output and if it doesn't, you can just
> >maximize the window (in Linux, the maximize button really does maximize
> >a terminal instead of just making it tall).
> >
> >  
> >
> I don't know what problems he is having.  He said in an earlier post that:
> 
> "(I launch java app from terminal, but line make output quite unreadable 
> (for me)...) "
> 
> I don't know what he is doing.  Is there something about java that is 
> unusual in a terminal?

Not that I know of; I avoid Java when possible, but I've done some
support for Java programmers and it could generally be handled from
console. It does STDOUT/STDERR normally.

I suspect that he's looking for a specific problem that could probably
be handled with STDOUT redirection and grep. For instance, I've seen
Windows folks do stuff during debugging like enable a horizontal
scrollbar, then scroll it to the right. ctrl-c, cursor-up & return
restarts the app, and if you see anything in the terminal it's a problem
sign (assumption being that normal output being nicely formatted to <80
columns).
-- 
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