[TUHS] Less -- was Termcap vs terminfo

[Jacob Ritorto]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:38 PM, <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015, at 00:20, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> The console screen doesn't, and the one in an emulator can't be
> controlled by the pager. The real question is why a pager should be
> executed at all in an xterm. Except xterm has no ability to search in
> scrollback, and its buffer may not be large enough for some very large
> manpages.


srsly, this is why we have tmux.  or even good old screen, in a pinch.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1?query=tmux&sec=1

each program small and good at its one own thing.
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