Re: Question

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > 
> > Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there any way to scroll/page output? It would be even more
> > > interesting ...
> > 
> > No there isn't. I have a very faint memory of this question having
> > come up before. I think the discussion stopped when we were thinking
> > about everybody wanting her/his favourite pager key bindings being
> > supported.
> 
> I would have thought it would be far better to allow people to use their
> favourite pager (as taken from $PAGER) instead of trying to write a
> simple pager. How compilcated would it be to make the listing code
> output to a pipe instead. There is actually a few times when I would
> have liked to pipe completion listings through a command so if this
> implemented, it would be useful to be able to specify another command
> (such as grep) to pipe the listing into.

A matter of replacing `shout' in several places with the pipe. But
then there is the issue of starting the external command... And what
to do with menu-selection? And the terminal codes used by complist?

Oh my, and I only asked if it would be better to mention the number of 
lines needed for the list when asking if it should be displayed... ;-)

And noone has answered that yet (unless Andrej meant that it would be
better).

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de