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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: pager for small mail
- Keywords: 2.4 less
- Message-ID: <BxEz9F.Krx@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 20:22:27 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu> <BxBFu7.2FB@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Nov7.154248.2248@wubios.wustl.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov7.154248.2248@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:
-
- >well this helps for the very specific "quick fix" but less does much more,
- >which is why we use it in the first place! For example we display a
- >customized "help line" at the end, users use 'r' to redraw the screen when it
- >has been "messed up" with new mail, the file can be "logged", a shell may be
- >involked......By the time that you start adding all of these (and other)
- >features you do not have an easy fix.
-
- Well, the "real" fix would be to build the portions of less that you
- need into the ELM builtin pager (I'd settle for paging backwards). I
- rarely use an external pager because you lose the ability to recognize
- ELM's single-key commands that the builtin pager understands (r!CXphdni are
- the most useful). For example I rarely know if I want to reply to a
- message until I've seen the first screen of it - likewise for copying,
- viewing headers, deleting, etc., but I can often decide before going
- to the second screen so starting an external pager is a waste of time
- and keystrokes. If I want the full power of less I can always pipe the
- message to it, but the ideal solution would be to add some of the additional
- features of less into elm so you don't have to give up the internal elm
- functions (which, by the way, include most of what you listed except for
- the custom help line which would probably be a quick source hack).
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-