Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:06:56 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>, d@delphij.net, Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: default pager (csh) Message-ID: <54E66C90.10902@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <a6684dcbda73144b6a59204f37e94ba7@ultimatedns.net> References: <CACYV=-GBD5FmnsQr=KC6Wc9qZ9UAFPQgPmNyS5Jr6Vs2G7dGjA@mail.gmail.com> <54E5232F.3060409@delphij.net>, <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org> <a6684dcbda73144b6a59204f37e94ba7@ultimatedns.net>
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On 2/19/15 9:04 AM, Chris H wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:16:55 -0800 Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote > >> On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: >>> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear >>> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), >>> while less(1) when running as less does. >>> >>> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even >>> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste >>> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the >>> more vocal ones when it comes to a change. >> I find that behaviour infuriating >> >> I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as a >> reference, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* >> the info I wanted to use has gone away. > Indeed. Quite annoying. > I just had an interesting thought after reading most of this > thread/bikeshed; > Theoretical, mind you. But would it be remotely possible to > [in (t)csh(1)] choose a pager on-the-fly (dynamically)? > In other words; bind keys to a chosen pager; > > ^M switches to more(1) > ^L switched to less(1) > > I've done no *actual* research [yet] but just thought > I'd bring it up. As it seemed worth a shot, as it would > satisfy *anyone's* need. :) > Not as annoying as people who don't search the web for an answer for things. ~ % export PAGER="less -X" everyone please stop crying over small changes, it really sucks. -Alfred
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