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authorHisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>2014-02-03 09:11:08 -0200
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htop
+====
+
by Hisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>
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.

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