scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) (05/16/89)
In article <32@wave4.webo.dg.com> tom@wave4.dg.com (Tom Jordahl) writes: >I simply use less as the default pager. Do many people do this? Is more >used for this default? Why would you use the built-in pager if more powerfull >pagers are "standard" ( I am referring to more here) on your system? There seem to be two drawbacks to using external pagers. First, there is a perceptable performance loss while the tempfile is created and the remote pager invoked. Second, one seems to lose the nice command mode that comes at the end of message -- instead you have to return to the index to get the next message. This latter was true in 2.1; it may have been fixed/changed in 2.2. This isn't to say external pagers aren't useful! But those two reasons keep me using the internal. Steve Simmons Just another midwestern boy scs@vax3.iti.org -- or -- ...!sharkey!itivax!scs "Think of c++ as an object-oriented assembler..."
rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) (05/18/89)
In article <1206@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
+There seem to be two drawbacks to using external pagers. First, there is
+a perceptable performance loss while the tempfile is created and the
+remote pager invoked. Second, one seems to lose the nice command mode
+that comes at the end of message -- instead you have to return to the
+index to get the next message. This latter was true in 2.1; it may have
+been fixed/changed in 2.2.
It was *changed* in 2.2. (I specifically didn't say "fixed" because that's
they way 2.1 and earlier intended it to be. It took a lot of work to get
the external pager to allow elm commands without returning to the index
screen.) I *think* (don't remember) that the Reference Guide goes into
this a bit in discussing the elmrc option "promptafter".
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