Optional Curser in lister

[Jonas]

Discussion: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2174
Idea: An optional curser for the lister (en-/disabable via hotkey, ex: 'c'; default: off)
Why: You could use the keyboard to select text in the lister which is much more comfortable then the mouse, esspetialy when you need to select many text or if the end of the line isn't displayed in the window. On the other hand you can scroll very fast using the keyboard with an disabled curser (like the way lister scrolls now)

[Ivan Moratinos]

I'd like it but only if can be disabled easily -by using a shortcut for instance- because I'll only use it to select long lines of text files.

[oblomov]

You can use the hpg_ed plugin if you want to do 'complex' manipulation on the text files. It features a caret and you can switch back and forth to the standard lister via 4.

My vote is "NO"

[SanskritFritz]

You can use the hpg_ed plugin if you want to do 'complex' manipulation on the text files

Have you tried to open a 600M file with the plugin? Don't try it at home We are speaking of speed here, and no plugin competes with the speed of the native lister.

[oblomov]

OK, you have a point there but you really have a 600M text file ? 8|

BTW did anybody notice the typo on the Poll subject? I can curse perfectly well in both Italian and English, I don't think I need a curser in TC too

[SanskritFritz]

OK, you have a point there but you really have a 600M text file ? 8|

BTW did anybody notice the typo on the Poll subject? I can curse perfectly well in both Italian and English, I don't think I need a curser in TC too

But yes, even bigger logfiles. Every day one is created by the system here (at my working place).

Curser: lol!

[Ivan Moratinos]

BTW did anybody notice the typo on the Poll subject? I can curse perfectly well in both Italian and English, I don't think I need a curser in TC too

If you want the TC to curse, you can edit the language file and change the error messages X-D

[SanskritFritz]

Thats nice, but have you VOTED??

[oblomov]

I did, but my vote is getting trashed by the many opposite votes

[SanskritFritz]

People, help me, I desperately want this feature! And it is sooo easy to implement... PLEASE VOTE!

[Sheepdog]

People, help me, I desperately want this feature! And it is sooo easy to implement... PLEASE VOTE!

Okay you convinced me, i have voted.

seriously:I did miss this feature many times. Good idea, hope Christian will implement it son.

sheepdog

[SanskritFritz]

Thanks Sheepdog!
Christian, PLEASE!

[Hacker]

And it is sooo easy to implement...

How do you know?

TIA
Roman

[SanskritFritz]

How do you know?

Christian stated: "I don't want to show a cursor because I hate it when I have to move the cursor to the end of the page until scrolling finally occurs!" This means for me, he deliberately took steps to disable the cursor.
Besides, I am a programmer, having dealt with Delphi a lot, and even if I dont know the control Christian uses in Lister, I am pretty sure that it is a matter of property in the code. Let's ask Christian about it.
So to summarize: you are right, I'm not sure if it is really easy to implement, but based on the above speculations, I think it is.

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm not using any control at all, I'm loading the lines on the fly from the file - that's why it's so fast even with Gigabytes of data! Adding a cursor would be possible in principle, but if I add it, it will be only optional because of the above mentioned reasons.