Bug#612995: grub-pc: pager does not work within a menuentry if loaded via configfile

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:56:25PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >From the command line, I can "set pager=1", and then either cat a long
> file or use a for loop to echo 30 lines, and see that the pager puts up
> a "-- MORE --" prompt and waits for a key.  However, the same thing
> doesn't seem to work from within a menuentry in a file loaded by
> "configfile".

configfile introduces a new environment context, similar to a new
process in Unix.  As a result, you must 'export pager' for it to be
visible in child contexts.

Does that solve all the problems you outline in this report?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]