vi mode ? [Re: ratop keeps on running (Robin Gruyters)

[Robin Gruyters]

Better late then never... ;)

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Robin Gruyters
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On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:31:28AM +0000, carter at qosient.com wrote:
> Hey Stephane and Robin,
> Yes, I'm finishing ratop() even now as I type.  By adding readline() edit support, and searching, the interface had to change a bit.  I did mention briefly that it was changing, but I should have gone into a bit of detail.
> 
> I will try to put a man page together soon.  I'm trying to get enough support into the new ratop() so that the "vi" man page will actually be a decent starting point.
> 
> All of this was motivated by the need to set about a dozen variables, and we basically ran out of characters with the single character hotkey approach that we had been using......, so I borrowed "vi" command strategy.  
> 
> So you will need to type ":" or "/" to do anything other than navigate the screen.
> The "/" search does support regular exprssions, so that is a big plus.  Still need to do highlighting of matches, but that's coming.
> 
> I know its "too little too late" but give me a few more days. :o)!!!
> 
> Carter
> 
> 
> Carter Bullard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: St?phane Peters <stephane.peters at forem.be>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:41:46 
> To:argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: [ARGUS] vi mode ? [Re: ratop keeps on running (Robin Gruyters)
> 
> Hello Robin Gruyters,
>  
>  have you tried the vi command to quit ?
>  
>  There was a change in the ratop interface not long ago, 
>  but nothing on the screen tells you what to type, once it is started.
>  
>  So try this:
>  ??? :q
>  
>  If Carter is reading, could I suggest this banner in ratop for a next release ?
>  
>  ??? Working in VI mode - Type ":h" to get help
>  
>  
>  
>  argus-info-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu: <mailto:argus-info-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>  a ?crit?: 
>  
> Sujet: [ARGUS] ratop keeps on running 
>  
> Exp?diteur: Robin Gruyters <r.gruyters at yirdis.nl>: <mailto:r.gruyters at yirdis.nl> 
>  
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:34:23 +0200 
>  
> Destinataire: Argus <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>: <mailto:argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> 
>  
> Destinataire: Argus <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>: <mailto:argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> 
>  Hello, 
>  
>  I don't know if anybody else has noticed it, but when running ratop? you can exit normally. (with q) 
>  I have to re-login and kill (SEGV(!!)) the running command. 
>  
>  I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 with the latest Argus releases. (downloaded? this morning) 
>  
>  Any idea? 
>  
>  Kind regards, 
>  
>  Robin Gruyters 
>  Network and Security Engineer 
>  Yirdis B.V. 
>  I: http://yirdis.com: <http://yirdis.com> 
>  P: +31 (0)36 5300394 
>  F: +31 (0)36 5489119 
>  
>  regards,
>  -- Stephane.Peters at forem.be: <mailto:Stephane.Peters at forem.be> 
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