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From: lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Pager limitations
Message-ID: <10500@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 12 Oct 88 20:06:06 GMT
References: <958@raspail.UUCP> <603@vector.UUCP>
Sender: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA
Reply-To: lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In-reply-to: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)

In article <603@vector.UUCP>, chip@vector (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>
>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."

If we are to call an external pager, elm should honor the PAGER
environment variable. Assume the builtin pager by default, with
a syntax similar to Mail(1), where your .mailrc says:

set crt=22

causing messages longer than 22 lines to be piped through the
pager.
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