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
next prev parent 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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