grep pattern /dev/text # a.k.a /dev/wsys/`{read /dev/winid}^/text
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 09:22, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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> 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