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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: The builtin pager (was Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant)
Message-ID: <5301@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 02:07:51 GMT
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Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <1643@attdso.att.com> tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde) writes:
+It would be very nice to be able to scroll backwords, although except for
+HUGE messages just hitting 'h' will get you back to the top.  If it does get
+put in, then someone please think carefully about what keys to use (I
+still occasionally use the less command 'u' to try to scroll up in rn, but end
+up unsubscribing to the current newsgroup - argh!).

There might be some tight constraints here, as the commands to move backwards
in the enhanced builtin pager can be none of the "index screen commands"
that are available while in the builtin pager. :-(
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