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

[Dave Anderson]

Markus Armbruster wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok -- but I'm still curious as to what other pager would be
preferable to less, more, or none?

Dave