[Aptitude-devel] Bug#808575: maybe use $PAGER when showing choices in command line mode

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> writes:

MAFM> I think that a better solution for cases like this would be to use
MAFM> --visual-preview.

MAFM> The formatting of information in that case is a bit better than with
MAFM> command line, and one can scroll up and down and fold subtrees, etc.

I just tried it and there I am back in the scary curses interface that I
have avoided for the last 15? years.

MAFM> Honouring $PAGER would be nice in general, but I think that aptitude
MAFM> already spawns too many processes to perform various tasks, and spawning
MAFM> processes as root is always dangerous (and circumventing that to use
MAFM> lower priviledges means quite a lot of work).

All I want to do is pipe it to less -F. A lot less fancy than the curses stuff.

OK then make it like journactl(1). That would be fine.