Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:04:55 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: 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: <a6684dcbda73144b6a59204f37e94ba7@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org> References: <CACYV=-GBD5FmnsQr=KC6Wc9qZ9UAFPQgPmNyS5Jr6Vs2G7dGjA@mail.gmail.com> <54E5232F.3060409@delphij.net>, <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org>
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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. :) --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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