On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:11:37PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > True. On the other hand, starting the pager position at e.g. 23% is > pretty unintuitive.
i simply disagree on that. i find it quite meaningful. it's not the start but how much i see. > fish_pager will try to [ ... ] make everything fit on one page if even > remotely possible. If it fails, then the paged output will be given > much more room again. ah, ok, have not noticed that yet. > > builtin (8) e (13) INSTALL p (7) u (3) > > c (12) f (8) k (3) reader.h w (6) > > _darcs gen_hdr (2) m (3) README x (13) > > doc_src h (8) Makefile.in s (7) > > Doxyfile (2) i (9) output. (2) t (3) > I think that might be taking it too far. [ ... ] This type of workflow > would be impossible if the pager was hellbent on always fitting > everything onto a single screen. that is true, didn't think of that. obviously i am not using these features much yet. it would still be useful for files though. > Good point. Unfortunatly, the sequence for shift-space and space are > the same. strange. mozilla uses shift-space for page-up. maybe in a terminal that's different. > Alt-Space could be implemented with no trouble. Or Alt-Up and > Alt-down. would not help. most window managers use alt for themselves. any alt-key combo does not work in my terminal. > > it would also be nice if the pager could ask if it is going to show more > > than a screenful of choices. > Why would that be useful? because i still have my bash motions hardwired here. and am not used to that yet: > If you don't want the completions, you can just keep on typing, > since pressing any normal key will exit the pager ah, i just realized what keeps me from doing that: to keep on typing i need to see where i am. the pager overwrites the commandline and so i get lost, because i do not know what to type, because i don't remember what i have typed already. with out the commandline visible i feel that i have to exit the pager first before i can get back to the commandline. it took me a while to get used to the fact that any key will exit the pager, and then i started the habit of always hitting esc to exit it. if you could shorten the pager by one line so that the commandline is always visible then going on typing would feel more natural > If your terminal emulator supports it, fish_pager will > even restore the terminal contents from before running fish_pager on > exit. hmm i thought that screen does support that. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
