Hello Daniel, On 10/21/19 4:56 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:43:18PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> From: Peter Jones <pjo...@redhat.com> >> >> When user enters into the GRUB shell and tries to use help command, lot of >> information is scrolled out of screen and the user doesn't have chance to >> read it. Also, there isn't any information about 'set pager=1' at the end >> of the help output, to tell the user how scrolling could be enabled. >> >> So just enable pager by default which leads to a much better experience. > > Hmmm... What will happen if a command produce tons of output during boot > process? I am afraid that it will hang indefinitely waiting for an user > input. This should not happen. So, I tend to agree that current help > command behavior is annoying but I do not like the solution. >
Ok. I'll then explore having a paginated output only for the help command instead of globally enabling it by default. > Daniel > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement Red Hat _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
