Quoting Andrea Pappacoda (2025-01-19 18:03:35) > In short, pagers are great, but only for users who already know how they > work. > > I see the following alternative solutions: > > 1. Disable the pager by default. Easy. > 2. Add some logic to handle whether the pager should be started or not. > For example, apt could check whether the "LESS" (or "MORE") > environment variable is set and, if so, pipe output to the pager. > Users who explicitly set the "LESS" variable are more likely to be already > using a pager.
3. use a pager which displays to the user how to scroll and how to quit it 4. print that information at the very top of the output shown in the pager Thanks! cheers, josch
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