It's not very responsive during initial indexing, which is something I need to improve. Pressing `q` should work to exit in general, though. Pressing CTRL-C three times in quick succession will force quit it.
It would help to know which version you tried. Things have gotten better over the years.
I tried `man lnav` in separate terminal - but no man page is provided.
A man page exists, but only contains basic information. The builtin help text is much more extensive and can be viewed by running:
`ps` shows 3 processes which would not die with SIGTERM, have to `kill -9`.
Older versions of lnav would use readline for the prompt and had to run it in a separate process because of "reasons". More recent versions have a custom prompt and don't require the extra processes.
re: man page - It looks like there is no support for man pages from the snap infrastructure. So, there's not much I can do.
The "stable" version of the snap is really old (circa 2023) at this point because I have been shy about bumping it. The candidate and edge versions are more recent and should be more usable.
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Oof, sorry you had such a bad experience.
It's not very responsive during initial indexing, which is something I need to improve. Pressing `q` should work to exit in general, though. Pressing CTRL-C three times in quick succession will force quit it.
It would help to know which version you tried. Things have gotten better over the years.
A man page exists, but only contains basic information. The builtin help text is much more extensive and can be viewed by running:
There is also the documentation website: https://docs.lnav.org/Older versions of lnav would use readline for the prompt and had to run it in a separate process because of "reasons". More recent versions have a custom prompt and don't require the extra processes.
I've installed from snap store
re: man page - It looks like there is no support for man pages from the snap infrastructure. So, there's not much I can do.
The "stable" version of the snap is really old (circa 2023) at this point because I have been shy about bumping it. The candidate and edge versions are more recent and should be more usable.
Thanks for your time.