Actually I use vim for that these days. I have an alias that starts vim and runs ":Man <arguments>" whenever I run man. That means it works nice and fast, and I get nicely highlighted man pages. As to a less stupid dedicated pager, there's always most, which also does syntax highlighting though the key commands don't quite work for me. It might do the redraw a little better, but I'm not sure.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Robin Lee Powell < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > Hello -- > > > > 2008/10/24 Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > I'm playing around with vertical split. I'm using Screen > > > version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06 on Debian. > > > > > > When I have vertical split on, less is slow. *Really* slow. So > > > is more. vim is OK. When I say "slow", I mean that when I say > > > "less file", it takes ~20 seconds for it to put the first > > > screenful of data up. > > > > > > Any idea what's up? > > > > It's a known caveat of vertical splits in screen. Screen has to > > continually redraw the region and so that slows things down. > > I had a giant post written about how vertical splits in emacs and > vim are quite fast, and how running vim under a vertical split in > screen is also snappy, as opposed to running less, so there *must* > be a problem somewhere... > > And then I realized that when you page down in vim, it redraws its > display area once. When you page down in less, it redraws line by > line. > > -_- > > Holding down j in vim to make it redraw line by line makes > everything just as slow as less. > > So. > > Can anyone reccomend a less (ha!) stupid pager? more does the same > thing, and I can't view man pages like this. > > less -c mostly does the trick... Except that the initial screen > clear to put the cursor at the top line is done the slow way, and > hence takes ~30 seconds. "clear ; less -c [file]" works, but I'd > love a better suggestion. > > -Robin > > -- > They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." > And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something > other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > -- -N AKA:Tom Scogland I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -Albert Einstein
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