Re: [Bug-readline] external pager

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/16/14 2:53 AM, Christof Warlich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just in case there is some kind of feature wish list for readline:
> 
> It would be great being able to specify an external pager to be used by
> readline,
> either alonside or instead of its internal pager.
> 
> Background: This would particularly be useful while working with tools like
> globash,
> where it would be nice being able to investigate the list of possibilities
> back and forth
> with a pager like less.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Right now, there's no general mechanism for
readline to invoke another program.

Chet
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