Re: Enable pager by default for the help command

[Seth Goldberg]

Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Thu, 3 Sep 2009:

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:45:28PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I know I've been annoyed by this (as have many others I've talked to).
> > How about we enabling paging (set pager=1) automatically for the duration
> > of the help command, since it will inevitable scroll off of the screen
> > for console output devices with a limited number of lines?
>
> We can't do this, as it could make GRUB unexpectedly require manual
> assistance to boot in certain setups.

  Really?  When is the help command executed as part of boot?  I'm not asking 
for pager to be set to 1 by default-- ONLY during the execution of the help 
command.

> If this problem is solved, I suppose it's fine, but it would have to be
> post-1.97.

  This is a big dissatisfier with pretty much everyone I've talked to who's 
needed help.  I suppose as long as it's well-documented in the manual, that 
would be a minor improvement.

 --S