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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
Date: Thu,  4 Oct 2018 10:29:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager?
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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.
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> 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