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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: pager for small mail
- Message-ID: <BxBFu7.2FB@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Keywords: 2.4 less
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:30:07 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:
-
- >We configure elm to use less as the pager, and have many users whose only use
- >of the system is for mail. For them to become sophisticated to notice that
- >depending on the bottom line on their display they either have to type q or i
- >depending on what they see will be a major challenge.
-
- It's probably for historical reasons but it happens that q works fine to
- go back to the index from the builtin pager even though the prompt says
- to use i.
-
- >Seems to me this would be an easy patch, and it would be very useful for many
- >users.
-
- An even easier patch might be to make the builtin pager prompt for q to
- return to the index.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-