From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LWYTb-0007jz-Lp for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:55:15 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWYTa-0007jJ-7F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:55:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWYTY-0007ic-I1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:55:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37902 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWYTY-0007iQ-Cz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:55:12 -0500 Received: from mail.nexedi.com ([91.121.25.85]:46500 helo=nexedi.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWYTX-0005Vb-R9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:55:12 -0500 Received: from [10.8.0.46] (unknown [10.8.0.46]) by nexedi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11CC3D9EF for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:55:05 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:54:58 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090124124715.GA17347@pina.cat> <20090124122924.3d971688@gibibit.com> <20090207213346.GD6343@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20090207213346.GD6343@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902100054.59276.okuji@enbug.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:55:14 -0000 On Sunday 08 February 2009 06:33:46 Robert Millan wrote: > 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. I don't always want to use a pager even from a command line. If GRUB sets pager=1 forcibly, I dislike it. I prefer that computers behave as I like, to that I behave as computers like. BTW, I don't like "pager" at all personally. For me, this is a hack only for working around that GRUB has no support for pipes. Regards, Okuji