johnb@barfly.corp.sun.com (John Benninghoff) (03/15/91)
Is there a way to disable the ...continue... prompt in curses mode? -- John Benninghoff Windows support engineer USAC/Sun Microsystems
schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (03/17/91)
In article <3596@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> johnb@barfly.corp.sun.com (John Benninghoff) writes: } Is there a way to disable the ...continue... prompt in curses mode? Depends what you mean by "disable". In general, you don't *want* to disable the ...continue... prompt. It keeps your screen from being redrawn in circumstances where you would not want it redrawn -- for example, if you display a message that is too short to go through your pager, or if you use a pager like "more" that falls off the end of the file without stopping, ...continue... mode leaves the message on the screen instead of wiping it out and redrawing the headers. If there are specific commands where you want the screen to always get redrawn after the command executes, you can always rebind those operations using bind-macro so that a forced redraw is done at the end. For example: bind-macro ! [shell-escape][getline][no-op] The [no-op] action has exaclty one effect: it causes the screen to be redrawn when it happens at the ...continue... prompt. (I wish I could think of a better example -- shell escapes are one of the cases where I would want continue mode to remain ....) -- Bart Schaefer schaefer@zipcode.com Z-Code Software Corporation schaefer@cse.ogi.edu