From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:38:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn07Fb2iagw01tjgoQxx7RszajOOFaAsecdor+urPssAfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88839FF5-A964-40AD-AACB-B5424262D436@iitbombay.org>
I get two hits in this, aside from the bikeshed of 'what is the status
line telling me about things I am looking at' which is a disease Emacs
has.
1) I use more, and the screen DOESNT clear when I finish. DOH!
2) I use less, and the screen DOES clear when I finish. DOH!
I kind of tend to 1. The 'clear' command works at a tty to flush
screen so for me, noting backwards scroll, less is 'more; clear'
But backwards scroll has been useful to me. Oh I know, I have
scrollbars on the terminal. But still. I don't like having to engage
the mouse for this stuff. I want commands, modal or otherwise to do
things which go to 'where am I, in the buffer'
Both are wildly complex. Who knew tail on a log was something
integrated into a pager? (I think it is for less. I don't think more
has that)
-G
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-15 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-15 2:26 Doug McIlroy
2020-06-15 2:41 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-15 2:55 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-15 4:26 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 4:27 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-15 4:38 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2020-06-15 7:40 ` Ed Carp
2020-06-15 8:17 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 7:12 ` Thomas Paulsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-15 20:25 Norman Wilson
2020-06-15 21:36 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 22:55 ` Henry Bent
2020-06-14 22:52 [TUHS] Fwd: " Warren Toomey
2020-06-14 23:37 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-14 23:52 ` [TUHS] " David Barto
2020-06-15 0:06 ` George Michaelson
2020-06-15 0:31 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 0:35 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 1:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-06-15 1:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-15 2:38 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:46 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:26 ` Charles H. Sauer
2020-06-15 14:03 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 20:19 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-15 20:50 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 5:41 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-15 13:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 14:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-21 18:49 ` Michael Siegel
2020-06-22 0:35 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-22 16:24 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-06-22 21:33 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-22 21:59 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2020-06-22 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-06-25 1:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-06-25 21:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-07-05 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
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