Re: [Crash-utility] less(1) TERM requirements; man page update

Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: >D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > >>| From: Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com&gt; >>| Fine, but at a minimum I propose the addition of a "--more" command >>| line argument to force its use instead of "less". With that in place, >>| I've verified that crash scrolling works fine using the "vanilla" >>| TERM type, and I presume that using "more" for scrolling would suffice >>| within the emacs/jove/vanilla environment as well? >>Would it not be better to use $PAGER to make this choice? >>- it is already a convention >>- it doesn't add to the tangle of options >>- it allows even more control (eg. PAGER=cat) >> > >I guess because $PAGER is typically not set, and PAGER=cat is >pretty much the same as "set scroll off". I don't mind when a tool has its own idiosyncratic default for unset $PAGER, but I do mind when it ignores $PAGER in favour of its own idiosyncratic pager selection mechanism.