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From: jacob.ritorto@gmail.com (Jacob Ritorto)
Subject: [TUHS] Less -- was Termcap vs terminfo
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:44:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYQbfDySuXHyYpsf=BZROia7VsiZDUUdAb-z5UoSQkEg-KyCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421091505.3373070.212956033.39DC72E0@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:38 PM, <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015, at 00:20, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> 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.


srsly, this is why we have tmux.  or even good old screen, in a pinch.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1?query=tmux&sec=1

each program small and good at its one own thing.
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-12 19:44 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
2015-01-12 19:44   ` Jacob Ritorto [this message]
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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