On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 03:27:26PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:06:16 +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> "gnome-terminal" and "echo $SHELL" returns "/bin/bash". It also works in
> tty1. And just tested on xterm and works fine.
>
> Use case: dmesg|less
Ah, then that's less you're in rather than the shell. In less you can
use space and b for page forward and page back, no need for CTRL-
sequences.
> > CTRL-V allows you to enter a literal control character for display, i.e.
> > CTRL-V CTRL-M will put ^M on the screen. It's actually , but I don't
> > know how well that'll come across in email.
>
> How are you testing all that?
Simply typing at the shell prompt.
Cheers,
Tom
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