Re: [PATCH] Detect line wrap and ESC in pager

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

Christian Franke wrote:
> 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.
>

'F' would possibly be more:-) consistent with less(1).

Christian