From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T07:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

> >As for ri, I still think it shouldn't just dump the whole documentation 
> >on the terminal, but it should let you scroll.  Like man pages and 
> >perldoc.
> 
> I see no reason why this wouldn't be a good thing. If you're
> writing to the console, invoke a pager.
> 
> Dave?

Well... I'm thinking of man pages here.  A typical man page is a lot 
longer than the vertical size of a terminal, so sending the output to 
stdout is not, on itself, very useful.  Something that scrolls would 
make more sense.  The only good thing about stdout is that you can 
redirect the output and pipe it through grep, but you can already do 
that.  You can pipe and redirect man pages already as it is.

I guess that the way it is now makes sense for short documents, that fit 
within the span of a termial.  But I'm hoping that will change in the 
future.

Cheers,
Daniel.