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Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Jan/24/2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
>> In Grub command line I really miss a cat with pagination (like
>> more/less). Any reason that it's not here? I don't remember if we
>> discussed it. Or it's there and I have not found.
> 
> I've just remembered set pager=1 and cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg :-) (from
> Grub console)
> 
> Maybe a "more" command that would setup the pager, cat and remove the
> pager would be interesting for people who doesn't know about pager? (so
> doing "TAB" would appear a new command)

Actually if we think about pager overall... it has a kinda failure also.
It doesn't support aborting the print.

There has been also a talk to enable pager=1 as a default.