packages: adapter - use less only if terminal is to short

[Tomasz Pala]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:15:39 +0100, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote:

> I personally consider very annoying not being able to see what I'm
> accepting -- there are terminals, like gnome-terminal, which switch
> buffers for normal and ncurses-based operation, so after I exit less, or
> it exists for me (in case of -E or -F), I'm unnable to see the text
> anymore.

-FX

> Having to press "q" is annoying as well.
> And lines to long for the terminal get very messy.

Old good school would say: man less

> So I added PAGER variable, less -r is the default unless you have it
> predefined in your environment.
> 
> $ cat ~/.adapterrc 
> PAGER="cat"

So did you mean simple 'less -FXR'?

-- 
Tomasz Pala <gotar at pld-linux.org>