Bug#763025: paging

Sat Sep 27 11:44:23 UTC 2014

Am 27. September 2014 11:33:01 MESZ, schrieb "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni at jidanni.org>:
>Package: grub2-common
>Version: 2.02~beta2-14
>Severity: wishlist
>
>One hits c and gets a
>grub>
>prompt.
>
>One then hits TAB and gets a list that flies halfway off the screen.
>
>Please implement remedies.
>
>One types ls ...
>and the same problem occurs.
>
>Please provide a /p etc. like they did in DOS 40 years ago.
>
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It's a bit hidden in the docs but you need to set the pager variable to 1

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/pager.html#pager