From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: pager (Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2))
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:23:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsye52qv.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070607172549.GA24117@aragorn> (Robert Millan's message of "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:25:49 +0200")
Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:26:35PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> > 5.1) pager
>> > -------------
>> >
>> > When I want to do a big ls the output does not stop screen by screen...
>> > Is there any hidden pager that I do not know?
>> > Maybe is not implemented yet?
>>
>> set pager=1
>>
>> It just isn't documented :-/
>
> How come it isn't default? Is there any drawback to this?
Yes, it's very annoying sometimes. You have to press a key very often
when there is lots of text. And people are used to the behavior to
keep scrolling.
How about setting it to 0 by default, so it shows up when you list the
variables. Currently it just doesn't exist.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-08 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-09 7:34 grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2) adrian15
2007-06-05 18:26 ` Marco Gerards
2007-06-07 17:25 ` pager (Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2)) Robert Millan
2007-06-08 7:23 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2007-06-08 10:05 ` adrian15
2007-06-08 11:36 ` Marco Gerards
2007-06-07 17:29 ` grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2) Robert Millan
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