On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:30:31AM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Thu, 3 Sep 2009: > >> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:45:28PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I know I've been annoyed by this (as have many others I've talked to). >>> How about we enabling paging (set pager=1) automatically for the duration >>> of the help command, since it will inevitable scroll off of the screen >>> for console output devices with a limited number of lines? >> >> We can't do this, as it could make GRUB unexpectedly require manual >> assistance to boot in certain setups. > > Really? When is the help command executed as part of boot? I'm not > asking for pager to be set to 1 by default-- ONLY during the execution of > the help command.
Ah, sorry I overlooked this part. Well, it wouldn't harm in help command, but I suppose other commands are in the same situation. Hopefully we could find a more generic solution instead? > This is a big dissatisfier with pretty much everyone I've talked to > who's needed help. Believe me, I'm annoyed by this problem too. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
