From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JQlYP-0002ee-Uv for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:35:46 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQlYO-0002eP-1f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:35:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQlYM-0002e7-Iw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:35:43 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQlYM-0002e4-EI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:35:42 -0500 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.de ([194.25.134.81] helo=mailout03.sul.t-online.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQlYM-00079J-9x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:35:42 -0500 Received: from fwd33.aul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1JQlYK-0005IZ-04; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:35:40 +0100 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (r3-9I6ZXZhtENVKghSIksksJ+eJRbfOXeudTs32F0bC6boQzpWrrVh7CUcB8zMKgy-@[217.235.237.148]) by fwd33.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1JQlYF-1RAnKa0; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:35:35 +0100 Message-ID: <47B85447.5080308@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:35:35 +0100 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <47B4BE63.5050703@t-online.de> <20080217134831.GC15576@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20080217134831.GC15576@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: r3-9I6ZXZhtENVKghSIksksJ+eJRbfOXeudTs32F0bC6boQzpWrrVh7CUcB8zMKgy- X-TOI-MSGID: 304a7c98-f017-4341-a521-3dd40d0ea0a8 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect line wrap and ESC in pager 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: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:35:44 -0000 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