Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

[Michael]

On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote:
> >> Michael wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
> >>>> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option.
> >>>
> >>> Are you sure?
> >>>
> >>> This is what I see here on line 47:
> >>>
> >>> "status=LEVEL
> >>>
> >>>         The  LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses
> >>>         everything but error messages, 'noxfer' suppresses the final
> >>>         transfer
> >>>         statistics, 'progress'  shows periodic transfer statistics"
> >>>
> >>> I find this useful in seeing the transfer speed drop in real time as the
> >>> cache gets saturated.
> >>
> >> Ahhh, I didn't see the status part.  It's sort of hiding in a
> >> subsection.  At least I know now that the version I have installed has
> >> this option.
> >>
> >> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror.  It displays
> >> like a webpage and is much easier to search through.
> >>
> >> Thanks for pointing that out.
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-)  :-)
> >
> > Yes, I also liked the old Konqueror interface.  Searching for keywords
> > e.g.
> > "progress" within man pages works if you preface the keyword with "/":
> >
> > /progress
> >
> > will find it and "n" or "Shift+n" will jump forward and backward to any
> > other instances in the man page.
>
> That doesn't work here.  I can type in /progress but it just shows up at
> the bottom.

Yes, it shows at the bottom until you hit enter to execute the search.  Then 
it highlights the next instance of the searched string.  Just like Vim/Vi 
does.  Hmm ... I wonder if I have set up some special environment parameter on 
my systems and forgotten about it.  :-/