Bug#763025: paging

2014-09-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: grub2-common Version: 2.02~beta2-14 Severity: wishlist One hits c and gets a grub prompt. One then hits TAB and gets a list that flies halfway off the screen. Please implement remedies. One types ls ... and the same problem occurs. Please provide a /p etc. like they did in DOS 40

Bug#763025: paging

2014-09-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am 27. September 2014 11:33:01 MESZ, schrieb 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson jida...@jidanni.org: Package: grub2-common Version: 2.02~beta2-14 Severity: wishlist One hits c and gets a grub prompt. One then hits TAB and gets a list that flies halfway off the screen. Please implement remedies. One types ls

Bug#763025: paging

2014-09-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
FZ == Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de writes: FZ It's a bit hidden in the docs but you need to set the pager variable to 1 FZ http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/pager.html#pager THIS variable needs very much needs to be mentioned on the greeting screen after one presses c and hits

Bug#763025: closed by Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org (Re: Bug#763025: paging)

2014-09-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
B set pager=1 B https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#pager B HTH, Yes that helps... but not in 99% of the cases, where the user is panicking and can't even boot, nonetheless access any manuals. Therefore kindly put it on the help screen that greets one before the first grub