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
next prev parent 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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