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[Jack Kern]

Jack Kern wrote:

> Julien Graglia wrote:
>
>> > There is no horizontal scrollbar in xterm...
>>
>> arghhh!
>>
>> I try the solutions you gave me, but , "malheureusement" ,none of 
>> them solve my problem :        . my console are already maximised 
>> (horizontally)
>>       . when i change the font, it came really unreadable
>>       . when i deactivate "Auto Wraparound", there is only one line 
>> but cut if too long and no way to get the "cutted" part when you 
>> maximise the window
>>
>> In fact i just switch from Windows to Linux : DOS console can be 
>> configured the way i need : dont wrap horizontally+horiz scrollbar;  
>> and i just can't imagine that the Linux console (which is much more 
>> advanced coz u can do everything from it:completion, color, 
>> background, transparency...fancy options..) can do the same. I do man 
>> / google / news / ask friends ... none knows how to do that..
>>
>> may be it is not in linux philosophy... thanks for your replies
>>
> If you pipe your output to /usr/bin/less, the right and left arrow 
> keys might do what you want.
>
> For example:
>
> jkern at boat:~$ cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.alias | less
>
> Or
>
> jkern at boat:~$ < /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.alias  less
>
from "man less"

       ESC-) or RIGHTARROW
              Scroll  horizontally right N characters, default half the 
screen
              width (see the -# option).  If  a  number  N  is  
specified,  it
              becomes  the  default  for  future RIGHTARROW and 
LEFTARROW com-
              mands.  While the text is scrolled, it acts  as  though  
the  -S
              option (chop lines) were in effect.

       ESC-( or LEFTARROW
              Scroll  horizontally  left N characters, default half the 
screen
              width (see the -# option).  If  a  number  N  is  
specified,  it
              becomes  the  default  for  future RIGHTARROW and 
LEFTARROW com-
              mands.