From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MjDEn-00054m-HO for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:33 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjDEl-00053P-76 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjDEg-00050u-9H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32991 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjDEg-00050n-2e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:26 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:37137) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjDEf-0003Tm-LB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:25 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8] helo=aybabtu.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjDEe-0007ZO-UQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:25 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MjDEe-00052E-8d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:24:24 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MjDEd-0001mJ-Mn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:24:23 +0200 Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:24:23 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090903142423.GE6656@thorin> References: <20090818175751.GA8971@thorin> <20090823120116.GP4130@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Enable pager by default for the help command 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: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:24:31 -0000 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."