From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect line wrap and ESC in pager
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:35:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B85447.5080308@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080217134831.GC15576@thorin>
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:19:15PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>
>> The pager=1 setting is not effective for files with very long (or no) lines.
>> This patch fixes this and allows to disable the pager with ESC.
>> The latter is useful in conjunction with the "abort cat command" patch.
>>
>
> Why not with 'q|Q' ? Then it would be consistent with less(1)
>
> Or it could even handle both...
>
>
q|Q in less abort the current command. ESC in the patch disables the
pager temporarily to give the user the chance to abort the (cat-)command
with another ESC.
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-17 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-14 22:19 [PATCH] Detect line wrap and ESC in pager Christian Franke
2008-02-17 13:48 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-17 15:35 ` Christian Franke [this message]
2008-02-21 17:43 ` Christian Franke
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=47B85447.5080308@t-online.de \
--to=christian.franke@t-online.de \
--cc=grub-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.