[8907] in Athena Bugs
Re: vax 7.3P: discuss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Jan 31 15:44:36 1992
To: Ron Newman rnewman@bbn.com <rnewman@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8906] in Athena Bugs
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 15:44:18 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>> Scroll a long transaction (in Central_America) back by using
>> the "b" command at the "More" prompt. I know this command exists
>> because I see it when I type "h" for help.
according to the "more" man page:
Other sequences which may be typed when more pauses, and
their effects, are as follows. Some of these commands,
especially those with optional integer arguments such as b ,
will not work when input is being piped through more.
discuss pipes input to more. More cannot backup when a pipe is used.
Therefore, more cannot backup when using discuss. (I learned in
24.151 today that this is a logical syllogism.)
You might want to send mail to discussers@athena suggesting that
discuss write the transaction to a file, so more could backspace, or
supporting a PAGER environment variable, so you could use "less",
which does support backing up in a pipe.
Marc
