Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>>D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >>> >>>>| From: Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>| Fine, but at a minimum I propose the addition of a "--more" command >>>>| line argument to force its use instead of "less". With that in place, >>>>| I've verified that crash scrolling works fine using the "vanilla" >>>>| TERM type, and I presume that using "more" for scrolling would suffice >>>>| within the emacs/jove/vanilla environment as well? >>>>Would it not be better to use $PAGER to make this choice? >>>>- it is already a convention >>>>- it doesn't add to the tangle of options >>>>- it allows even more control (eg. PAGER=cat) >>>> >>> >>>I guess because $PAGER is typically not set, and PAGER=cat is >>>pretty much the same as "set scroll off". >> I don't mind when a tool has its own idiosyncratic default for unset >> $PAGER, but I do mind when it ignores $PAGER in favour of its own >> idiosyncratic pager selection mechanism. >> > > Ok -- but I'm still curious as to what other pager would be > preferable to less, more, or none? > > Dave Personally, I'm happy with less and none, but I very much prefer to control it through $PAGER, because that's the common way to do it. A more philosophical argument is that it's simply not ours to decide what pagers users are allowed use. And we don't have to. $PAGER is no less usable than the alternatives, yet provides all the choice users could want. -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
