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From: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
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Subject: Re: The builtin pager (was Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant)
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Date: 18 May 89 14:51:59 GMT
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In article <5301@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>In article <1643@attdso.att.com> tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde) writes:
>+It would be very nice to be able to scroll backwards . . .  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. :-(

Well, no one said it would be easy :-).  How about ^F and ^B?  Works for
vi and less.

Or: how about recognizing the - and + keys as paging backwards/forwards
through the message?  This would be consistent with - and + paging through
the index (which I can't see wanting to do from the pager), and I can't think
of any other programs this would conflict with.

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