[GRASS5] Arrow keys and default pager

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:04:42PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Hi Markus
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:15:26AM +0200, Andrea Aime wrote:
> > > couldn't it be a default option if "less" is
> > > available on the machine (at least under Linux)?
> > I agree.
> 
> I disagree. I would like to avoid adding things into the initialization
> code that are not strictly necessary. It is already complex. Since less
> is not available on all platforms then it should not be the default. As
> I said in my reply to Andrea, you should be able to set the PAGER
> environment variable in your $HOME/.bashrc file.

O.k., it has to be platform independent. I am still wondering why i.target
and other modules behave so user unfriendly. Maybe it is a different reason
and not related to more? 

Is anyone there having GRASS 4.x and can try the i.target /list to report if
behaviour is different (and more convenient)?

Thanks,

 Markus

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