Hi Tony, (and others), Thanks for your (tireless) input, yes, Ctrl-C is certainly a good suggestion, that works consistently, with no error bells/flashes, no matter how far through the messages you are. And I totally agree that it's good to make it easy to know when there is more output to come or not, by having a different 'end' message.
Thanks also to the other guys who've responded, raising related points. I suppose I'm biased - after getting hooked on vim, it seemed natural to alias unix 'more' to instead use unix 'less' - so I can get the vim style cursor movement commands. Hence I'm rather accustomed to the unix 'less' manner of scrolling text/messages. I guess the current vim approach is a melding of both Unix 'more' and 'less', which certainly has it's own advantages. Eg - unix "more" exits at the end of the messages in a similar way to vim (the key difference being that with vim, the messages all disappear, whilst with more, you've probably got them scrolled up your terminal window to review). Undoubtedly there would be both "more" devotees and "less" devotees using vim - so what we've currently got is probably a good compromise. It may be better, perhaps, to have an option to enable fully compatible versions of one or the other. But that's probably a lot of work. For now, I've got my code patch (not that it's nice to have oddly patched code). When I get some time I'll see if I can't find a similar change to address the other issue raised here, unless someone gets there before me. Thank you all for your responses. John On Tuesday 20 March 2007 14:58, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写于 2007-03-20 11:18:06: > >> To go back in the scrolling display, in Vim 7 (but not in Vim 6 or > > earlier) > >> you can use <Up> or <PageUp> depending on how far you want to go back. > >> > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Tony. > >> -- > > > > Hi Tony, > > > > Anyway to prevent 'more-prompt' from changing into 'hit-enter-prompt' at > > the last line? > > > > When you scroll down and see the 'hit-enter-prompt', anykey will close the > > message display, and the <PageUP> does not work under that circumstance. > > > > -- > > Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 > > > > > > In Vim 7.0.219 (and probably in at least some earlier v7 builds) hitting <Up> > (but not <PageUp>) at the Hit-Enter prompt scrolls the message back by one > line (if it's longer than the screen, but if it isn't there's not much > purpose > in scrolling back). > > After hitting <Up> once at the Hit-Enter prompt you're back to the > More-prompt > so _then_ you can use <PageUp> again. > > IMHO it is advantageous to have a different prompt at the end of the message > because it tells you that there's nothing to scroll _forward_ to. > > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > I think that I shall never see > A billboard lovely as a tree. > Perhaps, unless the billboards fall > I'll never see a tree at all. > -- Ogden Nash >
