[GRASS5] 'unsubscribe grass5'

Tinus Joubert tinus at netbus.co.za
Wed Apr 4 09:17:01 EDT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Neteler" <neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de>
To: <grass5 at geog.uni-hannover.de>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Arrow keys and default pager


> Hi Andrea,
>
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:15:26AM +0200, Andrea Aime wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I'm using latest GRASS cvs, XFree 4.01 and KDE 2.1. Every time I start
> > GRASS in text mode I find problems with the user interface: arrow keys
> > are not interpreted the right way and I get strange characters on the
> > screen (a couple of chars every time I hit and arrow). This is the only
> > program to do that, plain terminal emulators and other programs are
> > working fine... any idea on how to solve that?
>
> you are right, this should become fixed. The cursor stuff is in:
> src/libes/vask/
>  especially
> V_call.c
>
> Even g.help should be fixed, similar problem. I have tried a while,
> but don't know too much about the curses & friends.
>
> > Second issue: I see that the default pager for GRASS man pager is
> > "more",
> > but under linux the default pager is usually "less", much more powerful
> > and easier to use. I'm getting tired of typing "export PAGER=less" every
> > time I login in GRASS... couldn't it be a default option if "less" is
> > available on the machine (at least under Linux)?
> I agree. For example:
>
> run i.target and enter "list" in "Enter group that needs a target",
> you get an ugly "more" bar and can only leave the list with "q".
> In past (if I recall correctly) you could leave with any button or
> at least enter key.
>
> Regards
>
>  Markus
>
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