This was brought up previously on the bash mailing list in 2014: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2014-03/msg00017.html
and then the readline mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00044.html and elsewhere: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/msg00138.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26257724/set-less-as-pager-in-psql https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/158269/can-we-use-something- better-than-more-for-tab-completion But implementing an external pager is not an easy task, and so far it looks like nobody has done so. >> I had a look at the source already, realizing that the internal paging >> mechanism is quite entangled within readline. I even considered trying >> a patch myself by passing the output to popen() to talk to the external >> pager. > I would have to see whether or not a popen-style approach would work with > applications that want to manage the terminal in other ways, its effect on > any signal handling applications want to do, and whether or not it would > work in a callback-oriented application. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00046.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691314 Title: Completions should be paged through PAGER when `page-completions` is off To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1691314/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
