Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:22:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: Peter aka SweetPete <swtpete@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binary called "top" not have realtime filter/search? [#SHAZBOTAA7235423352662A] Message-ID: <20070113032213.GA40355@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20070112192639.Q67707@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <ad32ec270701121402x78ba753ib5726a117c38f435@mail.gmail.com> <20070113010737.GC1715@kobe.laptop> <20070112192639.Q67707@bravo.pjkh.com>
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On 2007-01-12 19:27, Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> wrote: >>On 2007-01-12 14:02, Peter aka SweetPete <swtpete@gmail.com> wrote: >>>I've red the manpage for "top" (from heh heh "top" to bottom...), >>>and I am amazed that there is not a feature to hit '/' or '?' in >>>order to search and display only processes which match a certain >>>keyword/search term. For example, a user running top could hit '/' >>>and enter "fire", which would display processes related to >>>"firefox." >> >> That's an excellent idea :) >> >> Should we also allow for limiting by other stuff too, i.e. like the >> 'l' command in the mail/mutt mailer accepts a 'limit pattern' with a >> syntax like: >> >> >> Limiting by username or user ID >> >> ~u username only show processes of user `username' >> ~U uid only show processes of user uid >> ~U uidmin-uidmax only show processes of users minuid-maxuid > > username is already there... > > u Display only processes owned by a specific username (prompt for > username). If the username specified is simply "+", then processes > belonging to all users will be displayed. I know. I was "thinking loudly" of a way to extend this without having to hijack the entire keyboard. If/when we have a more featureful limiting mechanism, we can certainly leave 'u' as a key binding that works exactly the same as before, for compatibility reasons.
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