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From: steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Pager limitations
Message-ID: <965@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 01:26:47 GMT
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Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN
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I wrote:
> One thing that bothers me about elm (I have 1.7, so this may have
> been changed in later versions) is that when you look at a long
> note, there is no way to go down a half screen, or go up at all.

Some other suggested using less, adapting elm to conditionally use
less, and so forth.  The problem with an external pager is the exec
overhead.  Since less seems to be a fairly portable program also,
why not make an option to compile less into elm mostly as is?  I
don't know how ugly it would be to make less work as a subroutine
of elm, rather than a standalone program, but I would imagine it
is probably less (pun not intended, but intentionally noted) trouble
than writing a whole new pager for elm that is a less work-alike.

	Steve Schonberger
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