| 1 |
On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:45:27 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> > $ emerge --ask --depclean | less |
| 4 |
> > |
| 5 |
> > did not work when tested with a single package to be removed: the |
| 6 |
> > output from "emerge" was displayed on less than a single screen |
| 7 |
> > causing "less" to just terminate due to my setting of environment |
| 8 |
> > variable "LESS", but "emerge" never issued the question whether or |
| 9 |
> > not to continue nor did it accept an answer. I had to kill it with |
| 10 |
> > "^C" from the shell. |
| 11 |
> |
| 12 |
> Depending what desktop environment/terminal emulator, there are a few |
| 13 |
> options. You could use a terminal like gnome-terminal, konsole, etc. |
| 14 |
> which have scroll so you can run `emerge -ca' and scroll to view the |
| 15 |
> results. I run urxvt in i3 (not sure whether it scrolls or not), and I |
| 16 |
> always run emerge inside of a tmux and use tmux's scroll to view all |
| 17 |
> the output before making a decision, so you could also use tmux or |
| 18 |
> screen. |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
Or you could use a different pager, most does not exhibit this behaviour. |
| 21 |
There is probably a less setting to change this too. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
-- |
| 25 |
Neil Bothwick |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
Linux like wigwam. No windows, no gates, Apache inside. |
Archives