ralph wrote: > Hi Ken, > > > > after? i suppose if your pager does the screen switch thing, then > > > it might appear to come after, but it's definitely being output > > > before. > > > > Oh, definitely, but the screen switching thing done by > > curses/termcap/terminfo for xterm. I thought it was pretty > > standardized now > > I turn it off. Stupid idea. I want what's displayed in less, vi, etc., > to be left on the screen when I quit because it's often context for what > I want to continue to do at the command line. One way is a personal
agreed. i disable it too. i've never understood why i would want to hide data that i had just finished asking to be displayed. (i also preserve what was on the screen before invoking vi with a small wrapper that scrolls the screen by $LINES before actually invoking vi.) paul > ~/.terminfo/x/xterm, another is less's -X option, which can be in $LESS, > `set t_ti= t_te=' in ~/.vimrc, etc. > > Andy, `s' is less to type than `show', given ~/bin/s. Same for p→pick, > n→next, b→prev. Also gives the opportunity to apply some local tweaks, > e.g. > > $ cat ~/bin/s > #! /bin/bash > > noshow= > [[ -t 1 ]] || noshow=-noshow > > exec show $noshow "$@" > $ > > Cheers, Ralph. > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 22.5 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
