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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Pager limitations
Message-ID: <4036@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 88 19:55:00 GMT
References: <958@raspail.UUCP> <4801@b-tech.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <4801@b-tech.UUCP> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
+I agree, a backwards page command in the builtin pager would be really nice.
+Using less is too slow.

Less is slow only because you have to exec it. Once it's running, it's not
slow. So any external pager would have this difficulty.

One thing on the side of enhancing the builtin pager is that as a 
builtin it understands some of the index screen commands. E.g. if 
you are in the midst of paging through one message, you can go 
directly to paging through the next message with the 'n' command 
without having to return to the index screen. 

For the these two reasons it is probably the best to enhance
the builtin pager rather than simply recommend use of less as
an external pager.
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Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library
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