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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] less cannot work with emerge
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:33:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910161433.28317.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910161411.25344.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

Alan McKinnon writes:

> On Friday 16 October 2009 14:05:33 Xi Shen wrote:

> > when i use emerge, there are too many packaged that they cannot
> > displayed in one screen. but i cannot use less to separate it into
> > pages. why? please help ;)

Well, what happens if you try?

> it works here for me.

Same here.

> Perhaps the color codes upset your terminal. try:
> 
> emerge --color n <atom> | less
> 
> or use more

Or use most.

You could also use a terminal like konsole and increase the scrollback 
buffer. Or use screen inside a terminal, and increase the defscrollback in 
/etc/screenrc. Then Ctrl-A Esc, and PgUp to scroll back. Screen is a little 
confusing at first, but one of the most important tools, at least for me.

	Wonko



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 12:05 [gentoo-user] less cannot work with emerge Xi Shen
2009-10-16 12:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-16 12:33   ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2009-10-16 14:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Weilbacher
2009-10-19  9:15   ` Xi Shen

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