On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 02:35:57PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> On 2/7/24 14:12, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:34:55PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> > > So we shall make the 'more -> less' change then?
> >
> > I will wait few days for possible additional info or ideas.
>
> I would be for a change to using 'less', but as Waldek said, that might not
> be generally available.
>
> Since SPADEDIT is a script, there is no need to hardcode
>
> DEFAULTXEDITOR='xterm -e "more +$line $name"'
>
> in this file. So one option could be
>
> to test whether 'less' is reachable via the PATH and then set
>
> DEFAULTXEDITOR='xterm -e "less +$line $name"'
>
> or otherwise set something similar to
>
> DEFAULTXEDITOR='xterm -e "more -e +$line $name; read x"'
>
> . Seemingly, 'more' has an '-e' option.
>
> OK, my suggestion would require to press ENTER instead of 'q', but you get
> the idea. Maybe, for that case it would be easiest to change the text in the
> 'echo' command accordingly.
My 'more' has no '-e' option. If this option is given it just
complains.
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Waldek Hebisch
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