Hello It's been long since I last started vtysh myself but it looks indeed very irritating. I guess I should revert the Debian patch that forces Quagga to use the Debian configured default pager.
Using "export VTYSH_PAGER=" helps meanwhile. best regards -christian- On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:04:16 -0400 Christian Franke <nobody-deb...@nowhere.ws> wrote: > Package: quagga > Version: 0.99.23.1-1 > Severity: minor > > Hello Chris, > > doing a standard Debian installation and then installing Quagga, it will use > less as a pager for vtysh. While less might be a neat pager for vtysh with > more configuration, the less with default configuration is a usability hurdle. > On my installation, I observe the following two inconvenient behaviours: > > - less prompts the user to explicitly close it, after each command > - the output from less will be cleared after less is closed, inhibiting > the option to use output from "show ..." commands for configuration > commands > > While I understand the intention to make vtysh match up with Debians global > pager settings, > would it maybe be possible and sensible to implement a more usable default? > > -Christian > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.1 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages quagga depends on: > ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 > ii iproute2 3.16.0-2 > ii libc6 2.19-18 > ii libcap2 1:2.24-8 > ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 > ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b3 > ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 > ii logrotate 3.8.7-1+b1 > > quagga recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages quagga suggests: > pn snmpd <none> > > -- Configuration Files: > /etc/quagga/daemons changed [not included] > /etc/quagga/debian.conf changed [not included] > > -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org