Re: Allow using a different completion pager

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/6/21 11:44 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> $ man bash
>         page-completions (On)
>                If set to On, readline uses an internal more-like pager to  dis‐
>                play a screenful of possible completions at a time.
>
> OK, and it looks like:
>
> final.target
> first-boot-complete.target
> fstrim.service
> fstrim.timer
> --More--
>
>
> But if I could use less(1), then I could do
> /nerbleblatz
> string searches, etc.

This has come up before. I'm not really in favor of allowing readline, as a 
library, to fork and exec other processes.


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