[Konsole-devel] Review Request 112983: A new prototype feature for Konsole: Scroll Marks

[Phillip Taylor]

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Am aware of some bugs I need to fix when scrolling upwards. Please bear with me.

- Phillip Taylor


On Sept. 29, 2013, 2:57 a.m., Phillip Taylor wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 29, 2013, 2:57 a.m.)
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> Review request for Konsole.
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> Repository: konsole
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> Description
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> I'm not a KDE developer or QT person myself, but I had an "itch to scratch" as we say. A desire to add a new feature to Konsole. The feature is called 'Scroll Marks' and in a nutshell it allows you to mark line numbers in Konsole's output and then using next and previous menu options, quickly scroll to those points.
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> It basically makes scrolling up and down easier because you can jump through your output history even more quickly.
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> I went a step further and made these scroll marks automatically get created when the control character 6 is seen. This means that you can put 'echo -en \\06' in your PS1 prompt and Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down immediately scroll you up and down between all the commands you've executed. So when that cat or grep statement surprises you with a massive amount of output, it's just a key combination away to go up past it again. And no annoyance of manually scrolling too far in each direction.
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> Since it works using a simple control character approach, it works recursively across ssh, screen and older systems really well. If you're a dev you can put it in your warn statements so when tailing logs it's easier to navigate to where you want to. If you work with grep/cat a lot, a simple sed command can make finding stuff much quicker and simpler.
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> The feature works quite well and I think a lot of people would like it. I hope some of you will take the time to try it out!
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> I'm casually requesting its integration into Konsole depending on how others feel, but if you don't like it, I enjoyed writing it and will still probably continue to use it myself.
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> I would also appreciate a code review of the work so that even if you don't want this feature, I don't introduce bugs into my own forks.
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> Diffs
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>   src/SessionController.cpp 62c1d0b 
>   src/Vt102Emulation.cpp 0b6d2ed 
>   src/Session.cpp e27bf78 
>   src/SessionController.h 2ff7910 
>   src/Emulation.cpp 02ed4be 
>   src/Session.h 9e982df 
>   src/Emulation.h 92a0ea7 
>   desktop/konsoleui.rc 1dd4f69 
>   desktop/sessionui.rc 67d89ae 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112983/diff/
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> Testing
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> I'm not really sure how to do this. Some pointers would be very much appreciated. The feature does work though. :-)
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> Thanks,
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> Phillip Taylor
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