From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jacob.ritorto@gmail.com (Jacob Ritorto) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:44:30 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Less -- was Termcap vs terminfo In-Reply-To: <1421091505.3373070.212956033.39DC72E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <201501110520.t0B5KwvP018801@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> <1421091505.3373070.212956033.39DC72E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:38 PM, 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: