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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Pagers In Elm
Message-ID: <5316@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 18 May 89 00:09:32 GMT
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In article <1206@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
+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.

It was *changed* in 2.2. (I specifically didn't say "fixed" because that's
they way 2.1 and earlier intended it to be. It took a lot of work to get
the external pager to allow elm commands without returning to the index
screen.) I *think* (don't remember) that the Reference Guide goes into
this a bit in discussing the elmrc option "promptafter".
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