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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] perf report: Initial TUI using newt
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On 03/12/2010 01:29 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:12:44PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>    
>> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo<acme@redhat.com>
>>
>> Newt has widespread availability and provides a rather simple API as can be
>> seen by the size of this patch.
>>
>> The work needed to support it will benefit other frontends too.
>>
>> In this initial patch it just checks if the output is a tty, if not it falls
>> back to the previous behaviour, also if newt-devel/libnewt-dev is not installed
>> the previous behaviour is maintaned.
>>
>> Pressing enter on a symbol will annotate it, ESC in the annotation window will
>> return to the report symbol list.
>>      
> For those not so curious as to apply and try it out, here is a
> screenshot of it in action:
>
> http://tglx.de/~acme/perf-newt.png
>
>    

Looks really useful!

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