linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf hists browser: Support horizontal scrolling with '<' and '>' key

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Message-ID: <20150812091501.GA6896@krava.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:15:01 +0200
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf hists browser: Support horizontal scrolling
 with '<' and '>' key

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 02:41:22PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

> > 
> > Several lines are just comments explaining some tricks due to me not
> > having found a counter for the number of colums somewhere and reusing
> > the first loop that traverses them all to do the counting.
> > 
> > There are two before those that at first I thought was needed, but ended
> > up not using (would have to render the whole line in ui_browser to do
> > the scrolling at line printing time, works only for browsers where just
> > one call to ui_browser__printf or ui_browser__write_nstring is done,
> > but I ended up leaving it there anyway, to try to make the
> > hist_browser.c and other ui_browser implementations (annotate, etc)
> > independent of libslang:
> > 
> >   $ git log --oneline | head -4 | tail -2
> >   e7534e88dfa3 perf ui browser: Introduce ui_browser__printf()
> >   2fe0f7e4b73e perf ui browser: Introduce ui_browser__write_nstring()
> >   $
> > 
> > Tested it with 'perf mem record -g -a' + 'perf mem report', and I liked
> > how it works, please check if you like it too :-)
> > 
> > The <- and -> keys are reused just when the horizontal scrolling mode is
> > activate by setting ui_browser->columns, the hists_browser (perf report,
> > perf top) will continue having ENTER and ESC, as always, to
> > select/deselect things.
> 
> Currently the help message in the hist browser says the arrows keys
> are used to zoom in & out and ESC is for 'exit browser'.  Do you think
> it's ok to change the current behavior?

I have some concern here as well.. but let's try and see ;-)

but if we go this way I think I'd slighly prefer following behaviour:
       arrows : scroll by 1 column
 SHIFT-arrows : scroll by sort column

but it's just a suggestion, I like your change as it is now as well

thanks,
jirka
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