On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:56:14PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Shawn --
> 
> ...and then Shawn McMahon said...
> % 
> % begin  quoting what David T-G said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:01:44PM -0500:
> % > 
> % > I don't know of any pagers (ie, not meant to be an editor but instead
> % > just a file viewer) that do syntax highlighting, though that doesn't at
> % > all mean that they aren't out there.
> % 
> % vim, if called as "view", is a pager.
> 
> Well, yeah; the same as if you use -R.  But it's an editor that's simply
> in read-only mode, not a pager, and so it is a little clunkier to jump
> forward by whole pages (you can't just hit the space bar like you do with
> the rest of your mail messages).

you could make a shell-script wrapper to customize the keys.  I do something
like that for vile (not for keys, but to format a manpage on-the-fly and
view it with vile).

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