grep pattern /dev/text # a.k.a /dev/wsys/`{read /dev/winid}^/text


On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:30 AM Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 09:22, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, at 4:20 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> > > Turn off the scroll in the rio window that the shell is running in,
> then cat the file.
> >
> > This is my preferred option too.  Also works in 9term.  I liked to play
> MUDs this way, but without color I missed stuff.
>
> This has the problem of inability to search within the text,
> e.g. when reading a man page.
>
> On the other hand, a pager should perhaps be only a pager.
>
> When one needs to do searching, something like 'less' on unixes
> is far more convenient for me.
>
> Ruda
>
>