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Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'



On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, tom arnall wrote:
> if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more'
> is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list
> with the 'less' pager.

It's actually readline which has its own internal more-like pager.

See this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00044.html
for some details.


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"She decided what she wished to happen and then assumed that reality
would bend to her wishes." [...] "Reality doesn't indulge wishes."
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