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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager?
Date: Thu,  4 Oct 2018 10:29:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOEdRO3njLdVKUw1B9C3yA=Gd70R8UfN2b67i0HwAhJENgzKow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1538637615.2441252.1530298368.01587CAA@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-04  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-03  3:14 Mayuresh Kathe
2018-10-03  3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-10-03  3:23   ` Nick Owens
2018-10-03  4:31     ` Mayuresh Kathe
2018-10-03 13:06       ` Chris McGee
2018-10-04  7:20   ` Ethan Gardener
2018-10-04  8:29     ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2018-10-04  8:56       ` Ethan Gardener
2018-10-04  9:00       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-10-03  3:24 ` Alexander Kapshuk

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