From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Enable pager by default for the help command
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:24:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090903142423.GE6656@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0909021644080.499846@oretfbsg.Jrfg.Fha.PBZ>
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:45:28PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know I've been annoyed by this (as have many others I've talked to).
> How about we enabling paging (set pager=1) automatically for the duration
> of the help command, since it will inevitable scroll off of the screen
> for console output devices with a limited number of lines?
We can't do this, as it could make GRUB unexpectedly require manual
assistance to boot in certain setups.
If this problem is solved, I suppose it's fine, but it would have to be
post-1.97.
--
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."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 17:57 pc.mod -> part_msdos.mod (etc) Robert Millan
2009-08-18 18:11 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-23 11:38 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-20 21:42 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-08-23 12:01 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-23 18:42 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-23 20:05 ` Colin Watson
2009-08-23 22:37 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-23 22:51 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-23 21:05 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-23 22:59 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-23 23:43 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-24 0:07 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-24 12:25 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-02 5:04 ` Module autoloading? Seth Goldberg
2009-09-02 9:07 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-02 23:44 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-09-02 23:45 ` Enable pager by default for the help command Seth Goldberg
2009-09-03 14:24 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-09-03 16:30 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-09-03 16:55 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-03 18:00 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-09-04 12:01 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-28 8:55 ` pc.mod -> part_msdos.mod (etc) Yves Blusseau
2009-08-28 10:54 ` Yves Blusseau
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