From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 20:11:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E8A37B402 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:11:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a145.otenet.gr [212.205.215.145]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0S4BMK09905; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:11:22 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0S4BJO61291; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:11:19 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:11:19 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dan Trainor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports browser Message-ID: <20020128041118.GA56247@hades.hell.gr> References: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-01-22 10:19:59, Dan Trainor wrote: > Anyone know of an ncurses-based program or something that will let me > browse my ports tree, and read me pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and plg-plist? > I'd just like a more orderly way of browsing the list, and I don't feel > like: cd port1; cat pkg*; (read for a while, ok) cd ..; cd port1; .... > etc etc. With over what was it, 1600 ports I believe, that becomes a > pretty boring task. I found git rather nice. It works on my full-screen xterm, it's curses based, and it's in the ports (yes! yes!). Install it from misc/git and browse away :))) -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message