looking for a shell editor

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Mar 25 09:45:00 PST 2005


In the last episode (Mar 25), Gert Cuykens said:
> When you open a shell window in joe and do for example man radeon and
> push enter to scroll down it puts byte... before each line
> 
> byte 844       ing ATI chips
> byte 865
> byte 866       R100        Radeon 7200
> 
> how do you get rit of byte...

That's actually your pager doing that.  Joe's "terminal emulator" when
in shell mode is exceedingly simple, only understanding newline and
backspace.  You can run "man radeon | cat" to avoid going through any
pagers, and just use pgup/down to page through the text from within
joe.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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