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

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