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

Zsolt Udvari udvzsolt at gmail.com
Wed May 19 15:27:45 CEST 2010


> 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 :)


>> + 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"?

Zsolt


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