From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs pager? Date: 19 Dec 2002 17:49:13 +1100 Organization: University of New England, NSW, Australia Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lm2mzeom.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> References: Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040280816 21687 80.91.224.249 (19 Dec 2002 06:53:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18OuYo-0005de-00 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:53:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OuWW-0004G1-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:51:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!washdc3-snf1!news.gtei.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!central.cox.net!cox.net!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.usyd.edu.au!news.une.edu.au!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: blind-bat.une.edu.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108285 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4814 Da Witch writes: > (Of course, one *could* just use Emacs as a pager, but Emacs takes too > long to load up to be convenient.) What! You mean you don't always have emacs running anyway? Come on - after all, emacs IS the kitchen sink. Forget about wandering around in some boring shell like bash, tcsh, csh etc and typing cd, ls and less/more - just use dired, eshell and friends. Actually, on a serious note, if you do maintain an emacs session (I start mine at boot and only close it down when I turn-off/reboot - about 2-4 times a year), you should be able to setup the emacs server or gnuserv and a fake "more/less" so that the file is sent to emacs and you can do your paging there. Of course, probably the easiest solution is to use the lesskey program which allows you to define the key bindings for less and set them to mimic emacs key bindings. Tim -- Tim X. tcross (at) northnet com au