wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (08/20/84)
I see news presented on my screen using the "more" utility (under 4.2 BSD). The documentation (manual page) for "more" mentions the use of the "p" command and the "'" (single quote) for backing up and seeing what has been presented before, but that this works only when "more" is reading a file, not from a pipe. The latter seems to be the case in readnews, as these commands don't work. Is there any way to back up and see what has scrolled off the screen when running readnews and "more", aside from doing a "q" and then a "-" to back up to the previous item? I often just want to see the thing that zipped off my screen four lines back, and not wade through the preceeding "n" lines again to get there (at 1200 bps). Advice solicited. Please post or mail. Will Martin seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA (If you use "reply", please replace the automatic address with one of the above. Thanks.)
jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) (08/30/84)
If you want to be able to backup in an article, you should
set your PAGER variable to "more '+/^$' %". Then readnews doesnt
pipe the article through more, but just gives it as an argument.
This also has the advantage that the (27%) feature of more works,
and that more starts up much faster.
Also, you can skip back to the header if you want to see it.
The only disadvantage is that more also gives you the last two
header lines and the blank line, plus a line saying "Skipping..."
but I think the advantages are worth it.
Jack Jansen, {philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack