text wrapping questions in xterm

[Kenneth_18]

Hello,

I'm trying to view some logs files which are tab delimited but the no. of columns exeeds the xterm display. From the menu settings of the terminal, I can disable the text wrapping but how do I enable the horizontal scroll bar so I could scroll to the text not displayed.

Also in vi, how do I disable text wrapping and scroll horizontally to the undisplayed text.

Thanks in advance

[Alex Glennie]

see my comments wrt dtterm in http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xcf22b941255cd71190080090279cd0f9,00.html

xterm works the same way

you can just vi Xdefaults and add :

Xterm*saveLines:4000
Xterm*scrollBar:True

or use the command line options -sl # -sb see man xterm

not sure about vi I'll see what I can find .....

[Jean-Louis Phelix · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I've never seen an horizontal scrollbar on a xterm or dterm. Perhaps you could try to use dtpad :

/usr/dt/bin/dtpad -standAlone file

will give you a very simple editor with both scrollbars (horizontal + vertical).

Regards.

[Kenneth_18]

Thanks,

How silly of me. The GUI text editor is just right under my nose and never bothered using it.