Re: [PATCH] Enable pager by default

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Daniel,

On 10/21/19 4:56 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:43:18PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> From: Peter Jones <address@hidden>
>>
>> When user enters into the GRUB shell and tries to use help command, lot of
>> information is scrolled out of screen and the user doesn't have chance to
>> read it. Also, there isn't any information about 'set pager=1' at the end
>> of the help output, to tell the user how scrolling could be enabled.
>>
>> So just enable pager by default which leads to a much better experience.
> 
> Hmmm... What will happen if a command produce tons of output during boot
> process? I am afraid that it will hang indefinitely waiting for an user
> input. This should not happen. So, I tend to agree that current help
> command behavior is annoying but I do not like the solution.
>

Ok. I'll then explore having a paginated output only for the help command
instead of globally enabling it by default.
 
> Daniel
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement
Red Hat