On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:30:20AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > On 10/21/19 4:56 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:43:18PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > >> From: Peter Jones <pjo...@redhat.com> > >> > >> When user enters into the GRUB shell and tries to use help command, lot of > >> information is scrolled out of screen and the user doesn't have chance to > >> read it. Also, there isn't any information about 'set pager=1' at the end > >> of the help output, to tell the user how scrolling could be enabled. > >> > >> So just enable pager by default which leads to a much better experience. > > > > Hmmm... What will happen if a command produce tons of output during boot > > process? I am afraid that it will hang indefinitely waiting for an user > > input. This should not happen. So, I tend to agree that current help > > command behavior is annoying but I do not like the solution. > > Ok. I'll then explore having a paginated output only for the help command > instead of globally enabling it by default.
Great! Though I would think about something which can be used also in other commands producing a lot of output. Maybe we should introduce "-p" (pause) command line option for such commands. And I am not against using existing code to do a pause. We just have to do it carefully. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
