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User Interface
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2013-08-26 14:20:01 +00:00
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The main part of the display shows the log messages from all files sorted by the
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message time. Status bars at the top and bottom of the screen can given you an
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idea of where you are in the logs. And, the last line is used for entering
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commands. Navigation is controlled by a series of hotkeys, see :ref:`hotkeys`
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for more information.
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.. figure:: lnav-ui.png
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:align: center
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:alt: Screenshot showing syslog messages.
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Screenshot of **lnav** viewing syslog messages.
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On color displays, the log messages will be highlighted as follows:
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* Errors will be colored in red;
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* warnings will be yellow;
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* search hits are reverse video;
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* various color highlights will be applied to: IP addresses, SQL keywords,
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XML tags, file and line numbers in Java backtraces, and quoted strings;
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* "identifiers" in the messages will be randomly assigned colors based on their
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content (works best on "xterm-256color" terminals).
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The right side of the display has a proportionally sized 'scrollbar' that
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shows:
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* your current position in the file;
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* the locations of errors/warnings in the log files by using a red or yellow
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coloring;
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* the locations of search hits by using a tick-mark pointing to the left;
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* the locations of bookmarks by using a tick-mark pointing to the right.
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Above and below the main body are status lines that display:
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* the current time;
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* the name of the file the top line was pulled from;
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* the log format for the top line;
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* the current view;
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* the line number for the top line in the display;
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* the current search hit and the total number of hits;
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* the number of lines that are **not** displayed because of filtering.
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Finally, the last line on the display is where you can enter search
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patterns and execute internal commands, such as converting a
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unix-timestamp into a human-readable date. The command-line is by
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the readline library, so the usual set of keyboard shortcuts can
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be used.
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The body of the display is also used to display other content, such
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as: the help file, histograms of the log messages over time, and
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SQL results. The views are organized into a stack so that any time
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you activate a new view with a key press or command, the new view
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is pushed onto the stack. Pressing the same key again will pop the
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view off of the stack and return you to the previous view. Note
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that you can always use 'q' to pop the top view off of the stack.
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