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Optional Curser in lister

Posted: 2003-11-25, 18:57 UTC
by Jonas
Discussion: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2174
Idea: An optional curser for the lister (en-/disabable via hotkey, ex: 'c'; default: off)
Why: You could use the keyboard to select text in the lister which is much more comfortable then the mouse, esspetialy when you need to select many text or if the end of the line isn't displayed in the window. On the other hand you can scroll very fast using the keyboard with an disabled curser (like the way lister scrolls now)

Posted: 2003-11-25, 21:17 UTC
by Ivan Moratinos
I'd like it but only if can be disabled easily -by using a shortcut for instance- because I'll only use it to select long lines of text files.

Posted: 2003-11-26, 09:07 UTC
by oblomov
You can use the hpg_ed plugin if you want to do 'complex' manipulation on the text files. It features a caret and you can switch back and forth to the standard lister via 4.

My vote is "NO"

Posted: 2003-11-26, 09:30 UTC
by SanskritFritz
You can use the hpg_ed plugin if you want to do 'complex' manipulation on the text files
Have you tried to open a 600M file with the plugin? Don't try it at home ;-) We are speaking of speed here, and no plugin competes with the speed of the native lister.

Posted: 2003-11-26, 09:34 UTC
by oblomov
OK, you have a point there but you really have a 600M text file ? 8|

BTW did anybody notice the typo on the Poll subject? I can curse perfectly well in both Italian and English, I don't think I need a curser in TC too ;)

Posted: 2003-11-26, 09:38 UTC
by SanskritFritz
oblomov wrote:OK, you have a point there but you really have a 600M text file ? 8|

BTW did anybody notice the typo on the Poll subject? I can curse perfectly well in both Italian and English, I don't think I need a curser in TC too ;)
But yes, even bigger logfiles. Every day one is created by the system here (at my working place).

Curser: lol!

Posted: 2003-11-26, 16:03 UTC
by Ivan Moratinos
BTW did anybody notice the typo on the Poll subject? I can curse perfectly well in both Italian and English, I don't think I need a curser in TC too
If you want the TC to curse, you can edit the language file and change the error messages X-D

Posted: 2003-11-27, 15:30 UTC
by SanskritFritz
Thats nice, but have you VOTED??
;-)

Posted: 2003-11-27, 16:20 UTC
by oblomov
I did, but my vote is getting trashed by the many opposite votes :)

Posted: 2004-06-14, 14:39 UTC
by SanskritFritz
People, help me, I desperately want this feature! And it is sooo easy to implement... PLEASE VOTE!

Posted: 2004-06-14, 20:26 UTC
by Sheepdog
SanskritFritz wrote:People, help me, I desperately want this feature! And it is sooo easy to implement... PLEASE VOTE!
Okay you convinced me, i have voted. :lol:

seriously:I did miss this feature many times. Good idea, hope Christian will implement it son.

sheepdog

Posted: 2004-06-14, 22:00 UTC
by SanskritFritz
Thanks Sheepdog!
Christian, PLEASE!

Posted: 2004-06-15, 10:53 UTC
by Hacker
And it is sooo easy to implement...
How do you know?

TIA
Roman

Posted: 2004-06-15, 11:46 UTC
by SanskritFritz
How do you know?
Christian stated: "I don't want to show a cursor because I hate it when I have to move the cursor to the end of the page until scrolling finally occurs!" This means for me, he deliberately took steps to disable the cursor.
Besides, I am a programmer, having dealt with Delphi a lot, and even if I dont know the control Christian uses in Lister, I am pretty sure that it is a matter of property in the code. Let's ask Christian about it.
So to summarize: you are right, I'm not sure if it is really easy to implement, but based on the above speculations, I think it is.

Posted: 2004-06-17, 19:27 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
I'm not using any control at all, I'm loading the lines on the fly from the file - that's why it's so fast even with Gigabytes of data! Adding a cursor would be possible in principle, but if I add it, it will be only optional because of the above mentioned reasons.