From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:39:46 +0100 From: Martin Neubauer To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Fwd: Does sam have browse command Message-ID: <20080228193946.GA851@shodan.homeunix.net> References: <20080228085815.GA830@shodan.homeunix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 683b3762-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Well, for what b provides this is probably good enough. You can use .+,.+20p for disjoined chunks, or .+-,.+20p for what b does in ed. It's all in the man page, though. * Hongzheng Wang (wanghz@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks. But it seems that this instruction only works in ed. With > sam, however, the printed area will be increasely expanded each time > rather than be disjoined ones. > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Martin Neubauer wrote: > > .,.+20p > > > > > > > > > I checked the upe, and also the document of GNU ed. It seems that the > > > `b' command is really a new feature. Then, when such a browse command > > > was not here yet, how conveniently did users browse in page to page > > > manner in ed or sam -d? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > HZ