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From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Pager limitations
Message-ID: <603@vector.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 88 01:44:36 GMT
References: <958@raspail.UUCP>
Reply-To: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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In article <958@raspail.UUCP> steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) writes:
>One thing that bothers me about elm [...] there is no way [with the
>builtin pager] to go down a half screen, or go up at all.

Yeah...this remains a limitation of the builtin pager.  And this has
kind of bothered me as well.

But I think it is wrong wrong wrong to start adding features to the
builtin pager.  Instead, I would strongly prefer a modification of
the "pager" variable so I can say something like "pager = 48:less"
which says, "use 'less' as my pager for messages 48 lines or longer and
builtin for anything smaller."

On the other hand, I'd be willing to forgoe this if it adds a lot
of code.  Elm is already humongous, and a bit of dieting wouldn't hurt.
-- 
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