Re: terminal with horizontal scrollbar

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:05:38AM +0100, Hugo Coolens wrote:
> When using select in psql for tables with a lot of columns, I often get
> rows which wrap at the right side of the screen to the next row, this
> makes the columns into a mess. It would be nice to have a terminal
> (something like rxvt or xterm) which allows horizontal scrolling. Does
> anyone know of such a terminal program?

I use PAGER=less

When psql has piped the output to less, by default the text wraps. However, if
you type -S, less will unwrap the lines for you.
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