Re: Enable pager by default for the help command

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:45:28PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I know I've been annoyed by this (as have many others I've talked to).  
> How about we enabling paging (set pager=1) automatically for the duration 
> of the help command, since it will inevitable scroll off of the screen 
> for console output devices with a limited number of lines?

We can't do this, as it could make GRUB unexpectedly require manual
assistance to boot in certain setups.

If this problem is solved, I suppose it's fine, but it would have to be
post-1.97.

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Robert Millan

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