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wrap long command line in a separate window #636
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A screenshot showing a Chrome command with 1.5K+ chars, for those interested in the result:
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This would be also useful for environment variables (#698) |
For a process with a very long command, especially with many long command line arguments, inspecting the command and its arguments could become inconvenient. Meanwhile htop supports the concept of "screen", or window, which is extended to create a dedicated "CommandScreen", making it possible to display the command of the selected process in a separate window meanwhile being wrapped into multiple lines. Another benefit of using a command screen is, the user can navigate through the wrapped lines of the command and perform actions like searching and filtering.
Previously the command is hard-wrapped by the window width, this is now improved to wrap by the closest whitespace.
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For a process with a very long command, especially with many long
command line arguments, inspecting the command and its arguments could
become inconvenient from the process list.
Meanwhile htop supports the concept of "screen", or window, which is
extended to create a dedicated "CommandScreen", making it possible to
display the command of the selected process in a separate window,
with the command wrapped into multiple lines.
Another benefit of using a command screen is, the user can now navigate
through the wrapped lines of the command and perform actions like
searching and filtering.
Currently the shortcut key L, namely the capital
Lis usedto show the selected process command in a separate window, see the
screenshot below.