packages: vimpager/README (NEW) - initial - taken from webpage

Paweł Zuzelski z at xatka.net
Wed May 19 16:12:38 CEST 2010


On Wed, 19 May 2010, Zsolt Udvari wrote:

> > What about ksh users? :) I'd write "in your shell config, for
> > example ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.".
> I copied from webpage. If you use ksh and you feel that you're
> discriminated, correct it :)

ok ok :)
otoh if someone uses non-default, he knows how to configure it...

> >> + alias less=$PAGER
> >
> > This is not good advice in my opinion. All programs that need to
> > display a lot of text data should support PAGER env (and many do,
> > like man, perldoc, git). 'less' means run 'less', not the default
> > pager. Sometimes user may need to run less even if he use vimpager
> > as default pager. For example vimpager does not support less' -R
> > option so it is unable to display file containing terminal color
> > codes.
> And what is your suggestion? Should delete this "advice"?

In my opinion - yes.

-- 
Paweł


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