Re: [PATCH] Detect line wrap and ESC in pager

[Christian Franke]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:19:15PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
> > The pager=1 setting is not effective for files with very long (or no) lines.
> > This patch fixes this and allows to disable the pager with ESC.
> > The latter is useful in conjunction with the "abort cat command" patch.
> >     
>
> Why not with 'q|Q' ?  Then it would be consistent with less(1)
>
> Or it could even handle both...
>
>   
q|Q in less abort the current command. ESC in the patch disables the 
pager temporarily to give the user the chance to abort the (cat-)command 
with another ESC.

Christian