Re: neovim and less

2019-11-04 Thread R Ransbottom
Hi Jonathan, I was more on the path of confirming a bug. I got the same behavior on vim and vim-nox on gnome terminal and the console tty. Updating everything updateable and finally rebooting fixed it. So I suspect some kernel issue, but I don't know. For all my efforts, I am no wiser just ha

Re: neovim and less

2019-11-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 02:27:19PM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote: Issuing a ex command like :! perldoc -f close or :! cat some_file | less brings me directly to the end of the file output, leaving me with the nvim message: Press ENTER or type command to continue requiring me to navigat

neovim and less

2019-11-02 Thread R Ransbottom
Hi all, Neovim and/or less are not performing as I would like in one regard: when invoked from nvim ex prompt the pager goes directly to the end of input. Thanks for any help. Details: Issuing a ex command like :! perldoc -f close or :! cat some_file | less brings me directly to the