On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 09:22, Ethan Gardener <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, at 4:20 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > Turn off the scroll in the rio window that the shell is running in, then > > cat the file. > > This is my preferred option too. Also works in 9term. I liked to play MUDs > this way, but without color I missed stuff.
This has the problem of inability to search within the text, e.g. when reading a man page. On the other hand, a pager should perhaps be only a pager. When one needs to do searching, something like 'less' on unixes is far more convenient for me. Ruda