From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LVuof-0004ra-CS for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:34:21 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVuod-0004q1-5r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:34:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVuob-0004pQ-Pr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:34:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58742 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVuob-0004pN-KM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:34:17 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53833) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVuob-0001Ln-CA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:34:17 -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 1LVujO-0006A3-L7; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:28:54 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVuo6-0001my-PZ; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:33:46 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 22:33:46 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090207213346.GD6343@thorin> References: <20090124124715.GA17347@pina.cat> <20090124151137.GA28897@pina.cat> <497B77AB.6070504@nic.fi> <20090124122924.3d971688@gibibit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090124122924.3d971688@gibibit.com> 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: Re: cat with pagination 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: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:34:19 -0000 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:29:24PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > > There has been also a talk to enable pager=1 as a default. > > Which, as I recall, Okuji rejected because it could cause a > unattended/non-interactive boot process to hang unexpectedly if too > much output was produced for some reason. > > Perhaps the pager could default to being enabled whenever an > interactive command line is in use, but default to disabled when the > invoking command is not being executed from an interactive command line. > This would be the most logical solution IMO. Better CC him. -- 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."