Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] -S option

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:58:54 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, John McDermott wrote:

> Guy wrote:
> 
> By the way, should the "-S" option try to make the packet list window
> scroll to the bottom whenever it adds packets, so that the most recently
> captured packets, rather than the first N packets of the capture, are
> displayed?
> 
> Reply:
> 
> Please no.  I'd hate to see that happen as the only alternative.  I like being 
> able to look at one group of packets while others are being captured.  Maybe we 
> should make it an option to scroll to the bottom on new data.  The non-scroll 
> is a feature of Ethereal I find very nice.  I use it literally all the time.

  There is some unused window real estate where the packet list scroll
bars meet.  Would it be useful to place a "lock" button there, so that you
could change the behavior on the fly?