* [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? @ 2018-10-03 3:14 Mayuresh Kathe 2018-10-03 3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian 2018-10-03 3:24 ` Alexander Kapshuk 0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Mayuresh Kathe @ 2018-10-03 3:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be opened in acme or a similar tool? btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search for, hence couldn't find any. thanks, ~mayuresh ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-03 3:14 [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? Mayuresh Kathe @ 2018-10-03 3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian 2018-10-03 3:23 ` Nick Owens 2018-10-04 7:20 ` Ethan Gardener 2018-10-03 3:24 ` Alexander Kapshuk 1 sibling, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2018-10-03 3:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 424 bytes --] Turn off the scroll in the rio window that the shell is running in, then cat the file. On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 8:15 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: > did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be > opened in acme or a similar tool? > > btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search for, > hence couldn't find any. > > thanks, > > ~mayuresh > > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 715 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-03 3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian @ 2018-10-03 3:23 ` Nick Owens 2018-10-03 4:31 ` Mayuresh Kathe 2018-10-04 7:20 ` Ethan Gardener 1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Nick Owens @ 2018-10-03 3:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs the pager is p(1). On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:22 PM Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote: > > Turn off the scroll in the rio window that the shell is running in, then cat the file. > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 8:15 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: >> >> did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be >> opened in acme or a similar tool? >> >> btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search for, >> hence couldn't find any. >> >> thanks, >> >> ~mayuresh >> >> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-03 3:23 ` Nick Owens @ 2018-10-03 4:31 ` Mayuresh Kathe 2018-10-03 13:06 ` Chris McGee 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Mayuresh Kathe @ 2018-10-03 4:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs thanks nick. On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 08:23:47PM -0700, Nick Owens wrote: > the pager is p(1). > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:22 PM Skip Tavakkolian > <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Turn off the scroll in the rio window that the shell is running in, then cat the file. > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 8:15 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: > >> > >> did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be > >> opened in acme or a similar tool? > >> > >> btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search for, > >> hence couldn't find any. > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> ~mayuresh > >> > >> > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-03 4:31 ` Mayuresh Kathe @ 2018-10-03 13:06 ` Chris McGee 0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Chris McGee @ 2018-10-03 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 939 bytes --] I like how the pager (page) actually shows a page on the screen with the text you pipe to it. There's some real truth in the name. On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:34 AM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: > thanks nick. > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 08:23:47PM -0700, Nick Owens wrote: > > the pager is p(1). > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:22 PM Skip Tavakkolian > > <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Turn off the scroll in the rio window that the shell is running in, > then cat the file. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 8:15 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: > > >> > > >> did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be > > >> opened in acme or a similar tool? > > >> > > >> btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search > for, > > >> hence couldn't find any. > > >> > > >> thanks, > > >> > > >> ~mayuresh > > >> > > >> > > > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1514 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-03 3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian 2018-10-03 3:23 ` Nick Owens @ 2018-10-04 7:20 ` Ethan Gardener 2018-10-04 8:29 ` Rudolf Sykora 1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Ethan Gardener @ 2018-10-04 7:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans 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. -- Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long -- Ogden Nash ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-04 7:20 ` Ethan Gardener @ 2018-10-04 8:29 ` Rudolf Sykora 2018-10-04 8:56 ` Ethan Gardener 2018-10-04 9:00 ` Skip Tavakkolian 0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Rudolf Sykora @ 2018-10-04 8:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-04 8:29 ` Rudolf Sykora @ 2018-10-04 8:56 ` Ethan Gardener 2018-10-04 9:00 ` Skip Tavakkolian 1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Ethan Gardener @ 2018-10-04 8:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Rudolf Sykora 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. 'look' has been added to the button-2 menu in 9front. It's limited, but better than nothing. > 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. Less's features help somewhat, but I still prefer short manual pages. It's not like you can search for sequences of words in Less, thanks to the practice of replacing arbitrary spaces with newlines. Or can you? The last time I tried was probably more than a decade ago. Anyway, there is still hyphenation, which Less still couldn't deal with a few months ago. This separation of formatting from display is bad, as far as I'm concerned. -- Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long -- Ogden Nash ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-04 8:29 ` Rudolf Sykora 2018-10-04 8:56 ` Ethan Gardener @ 2018-10-04 9:00 ` Skip Tavakkolian 1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2018-10-04 9:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 813 bytes --] 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 > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1238 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? 2018-10-03 3:14 [9fans] plan 9 : any pager? Mayuresh Kathe 2018-10-03 3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian @ 2018-10-03 3:24 ` Alexander Kapshuk 1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Alexander Kapshuk @ 2018-10-03 3:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 6:16 AM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: > > did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be > opened in acme or a similar tool? > > btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search for, > hence couldn't find any. > > thanks, > > ~mayuresh > > https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/p https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/cat https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/page ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
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