From 817e292ac9196cbca8176f40b0e7a8c6afbaae48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hisham Muhammad Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:11:08 -0200 Subject: Update README file --- README | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index ad0e1671..611b2ad9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ htop +==== + by Hisham Muhammad May, 2004 - January, 2014 Introduction -~~~~~~~~~~~~ +------------ This is htop, an interactive process viewer. It requires ncurses. It is tested with Linux 2.6, @@ -23,28 +25,32 @@ and is reasonably complete, but there is still room for improvement. Read the TODO file to see what's known to be missing. Comparison between 'htop' and 'top' -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - * In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally - to see all processes and full command lines. - * In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned - key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape - sequences are triggered by accident). - * 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while - before displaying anything). - * In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to - kill a process, in 'top' you do. - * In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or - the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do. - * In 'htop' you can kill multiple processes at once. - * 'top' is older, hence, more tested. +----------------------------------- + +* In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally + to see all processes and full command lines. +* In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned + key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape + sequences are triggered by accident). +* 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while + before displaying anything). +* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to + kill a process, in 'top' you do. +* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or + the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do. +* In 'htop' you can kill multiple processes at once. +* 'top' is older, hence, more tested. Compilation instructions -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +------------------------ This program is distributed as a standard autotools-based package. See the INSTALL file for detailed instructions, but you are -probably used to the common "configure/make/make install" routine. +probably used to the common `./configure`/`make`/`make install` routine. + +When fetching the code from the development repository, you need +to run the `./autogen.sh` script, which in turn requires autotools +to be installed. See the manual page (man htop) or the on-line help ('F1' or 'h' inside htop) for a list of supported key commands. -- cgit v1.2.3