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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Make long ddb not suck
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On 31-Jul-2003 Bruce Evans wrote:
>> I have a patch that adds a simple paging facility to ddb at the
>> db_printf() level using a one-shot callback mechanism.  It includes
>> a simple paging callback that rearms itself based on the users
>> input (space does another page, enter another line).  I've used this
>> facility to replace the hand-rolled paging in 'ps', 'show pci', and
>> 'show ktr'.  The patch is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ddb.patch
>>
>> Comments?
> 
> I like it.  It also needs to have some idea of line lengths, so that
> 20-line pages with too-long lines don't scroll off 25-line terminals.

That's harder. :)  That might can be added in the future however.

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