From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Kwhus-0001rb-Ta for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:43:14 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kwhur-0001qg-Cb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:43:13 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kwhup-0001pm-Sf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:43:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58428 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kwhup-0001ph-N7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:43:11 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:44433) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kwhup-0002EB-46 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:43:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KwhuI-00010N-QK; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:42:40 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KwhtO-0006k3-3s; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:41:42 +0100 Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:41:42 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20081102184142.GA25637@thorin> References: <87y711o7z5.fsf@jidanni.org> <20081101124610.GB14721@thorin> <20081102170730.GA20848@nubol.oskuro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081102170730.GA20848@nubol.oskuro.net> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Subject: pager=1 as default? (Re: too many commands, "help" output rolls of screen) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:43:14 -0000 On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:46:10PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > output will roll off the standard sized console. Please remove some > > > commands so there aren't so many that they roll off the screen. > > 'set pager=1' solves this. Btw, should we make it the default? > > totally, this is very annoying by default. :) Since this was intentional, I'd like to know what others (specially the maintainers) think about this before proposing that it is changed... -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."