From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2659 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2000 08:13:49 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Apr 2000 08:13:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 17796 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2000 08:13:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10633 Received: (qmail 17784 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2000 08:13:39 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:13:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200004110813.KAA03974@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Oliver Kiddle's message of Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:49:11 +0100 Subject: Re: Question 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de