[Crash-utility] less(1) TERM requirements; man page update

[Markus Armbruster]

Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> writes:

> D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> | From: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
>> | Fine, but at a minimum I propose the addition of a "--more" command
>> | line argument to force its use instead of "less".  With that in place,
>> | I've verified that crash scrolling works fine using the "vanilla"
>> | TERM type, and I presume that using "more" for scrolling would suffice
>> | within the emacs/jove/vanilla environment as well?
>> Would it not be better to use $PAGER to make this choice?
>> - it is already a convention
>> - it doesn't add to the tangle of options
>> - it allows even more control (eg. PAGER=cat)
>>
>
> I guess because $PAGER is typically not set, and PAGER=cat is
> pretty much the same as "set scroll off".

I don't mind when a tool has its own idiosyncratic default for unset
$PAGER, but I do mind when it ignores $PAGER in favour of its own
idiosyncratic pager selection mechanism.