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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Pagers In Elm
Summary: External pagers lose a command mode
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Date: 16 May 89 12:39:12 GMT
References: <377@ladcgw.UUCP> <17839@cos.com> <9336@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <32@wave4.webo.dg.com>
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In article <32@wave4.webo.dg.com> tom@wave4.dg.com (Tom Jordahl) writes:
>I simply use less as the default pager.  Do many people do this?  Is more
>used for this default?  Why would you use the built-in pager if more powerfull
>pagers are "standard" ( I am referring to more here) on your system?

There seem to be two drawbacks to using external pagers.  First, there is
a perceptable performance loss while the tempfile is created and the
remote pager invoked.  Second, one seems to lose the nice command mode
that comes at the end of message -- instead you have to return to the
index to get the next message.  This latter was true in 2.1; it may have
been fixed/changed in 2.2.

This isn't to say external pagers aren't useful!  But those two reasons
keep me using the internal.

Steve Simmons         Just another midwestern boy
scs@vax3.iti.org  -- or -- ...!sharkey!itivax!scs
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