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[COMMITTED] pk-help.pk: hint at activating the pager in .help
From: |
Jose E. Marchesi |
Subject: |
[COMMITTED] pk-help.pk: hint at activating the pager in .help |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:13:40 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
It is to be expected that a new user will follow the recommendation
expressed in the program banner, to run .help. The output of that
command is long and will likely scroll down. This patch adds a
message to the output of .help recommending the user to activate the
pager with `.set pager yes'.
2023-10-30 Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org>
* poke/pk-help.pk (pk_help): Hint at activating the page at the
end of the output of `.help'.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
poke/pk-help.pk | 3 +++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7eb877f9..a7bfa9cf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2023-10-30 Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org>
+
+ * poke/pk-help.pk (pk_help): Hint at activating the page at the
+ end of the output of `.help'.
+
2023-10-29 Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org>
* poke/pk-info.pk (pk_info_type): Skip field pretty-printers in
diff --git a/poke/pk-help.pk b/poke/pk-help.pk
index 4930463d..47b006e5 100644
--- a/poke/pk-help.pk
+++ b/poke/pk-help.pk
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ fun pk_help = (string topic) void:
print_summaries_for_category ("commands");
print "\n";
print "To search for some topic in the poke manual, type \".doc
TOPIC\".\n";
+ print "If you couldn't read the whole output, try \"";
+ hserver_print_hl ('e', ".set pager yes", ".set pager yes");
+ print "\"\n";
return;
}
--
2.30.2
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