From: random832@fastmail.us (random832@fastmail.us)
Subject: [TUHS] Less -- was Termcap vs terminfo
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:38:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421091505.3373070.212956033.39DC72E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201501110520.t0B5KwvP018801@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu>
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015, at 00:20, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Sorry for veering away from Unix history, but this pushed one of the
> hottest
> of my buttons. Less is the epitome of modern Unix decadence. Besides the
> maddening behavior described above, why, when all screens have a scroll
> bar,
> should a pager do its own scrolling?
The console screen doesn't, and the one in an emulator can't be
controlled by the pager. The real question is why a pager should be
executed at all in an xterm. Except xterm has no ability to search in
scrollback, and its buffer may not be large enough for some very large
manpages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-11 5:20 Doug McIlroy
2015-01-11 17:08 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-01-11 19:40 ` Brantley Coile
2015-01-11 21:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-01-11 22:10 ` Brantley Coile
2015-01-12 15:32 ` Clem Cole
2015-01-12 19:38 ` random832 [this message]
2015-01-12 19:44 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-01-12 19:52 ` cowan
2015-01-12 19:53 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-01-12 20:34 ` random832
2015-01-12 21:25 ` Clem Cole
2015-01-15 4:32 ` Jacob Ritorto
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