Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-04 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.04.2014 23:15, Clive Standbridge a écrit : if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list with the 'less' pager. You may be out of luck. bash(1) in the "Readline

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:34:54PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. > > example: > > ~

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:40:13PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what > your goal is. As far as I'm aware 'less' has a higher priority than > 'more' in the alternatives system, so... Oops. No there aren't. That should teach me to read mo

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:34:54PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. There are a few ways to achieve yo

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Clive Standbridge
> if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. You may be out of luck. bash(1) in the "Readline Variables" section states page-

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, tom arnall wrote: > if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. It's actually readline which has its own internal more-

how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread tom arnall
if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list with the 'less' pager. example: ~/$ cd will get: Display all 150 possibilities? (y or n) if i enter 'y', the &

Re: Default Pager

1996-06-15 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Noam Rettig writes: Noam> Currently the default pager on my system is 'more'. I want to Noam> change it to 'most'. How should I do that? Add this line to /etc/profile (or ~/.bash_profile) export PAGER=most -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel

Default Pager

1996-06-15 Thread Noam Rettig
Currently the default pager on my system is 'more'. I want to change it to 'most'. How should I do that? Also, does 'man' use the default system pager. If not, how do I change it (I don't want to use the -P command line option every time I use man)? Thank