Function: proced-why

proced-why is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in proced.el.gz.

Signature

(proced-why)

Documentation

Pop up a buffer with error log output from Proced.

A group of errors from a single command ends with a formfeed. Thus, use C-x [ (backward-page) to find the beginning of a group of errors.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/proced.el.gz
;; similar to `dired-why'
(defun proced-why ()
  "Pop up a buffer with error log output from Proced.
A group of errors from a single command ends with a formfeed.
Thus, use \\[backward-page] to find the beginning of a group of errors."
  (interactive)
  (if (get-buffer proced-log-buffer)
      (save-selected-window
        ;; move `proced-log-buffer' to the front of the buffer list
        (select-window (display-buffer (get-buffer proced-log-buffer)))
        (setq truncate-lines t)
        (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
        (setq buffer-read-only t)
        (goto-char (point-max))
        (forward-line -1)
        (backward-page 1)
        (recenter 0))))