variable line-display pager?
Chip Camden
sterling at camdensoftware.com
Sun Feb 20 16:44:15 UTC 2011
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011:
<snip>
>
> Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the
> text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you can't
> just tap the spacebar; is there a way around that <cr> and
> turning it into a space...?
>
> Also, can you insert
>
> "^+++"
>
> text
>
> "^+++"
>
> top And bottom? Pretty sure that the user would have the large
> font to read aloug with that espeak read to hijm. Having the
> top/bottom delimiters might make scanning the text easier.
>
> (It messed up with more.
>
> Anyway, thanks foe something that actually works, :_)
>
> gary
>
>
>
>
> --
> Gary Kline kline at thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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>
Better?
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'optparse'
pagesize = 15
optparse = OptionParser.new do |opts|
opts.banner = 'usage: npg [-n pagesize] file...'
opts.on('-n', '--numlines pagesize', 'Specify page size in number of lines') do |n|
pagesize = n.to_i
end
end
begin
optparse.parse!
rescue OptionParser::InvalidOption, OptionParser::MissingArgument => e
puts e
puts optparse
exit 1
end
puts "^+++"
loop do
pagesize.times do
if line = gets
puts line
else
puts "^+++"
exit
end
end
print "More..."
system "stty raw"
STDIN.getc
system "stty -raw"
end
--
Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling at camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F
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