Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:11:19 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dan Trainor <dan@ript.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports browser Message-ID: <20020128041118.GA56247@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> References: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken>
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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 :)))
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