Console text file viewer
Tony Baechler
tony at baechler.net
Wed May 23 04:30:01 UTC 2007
At 12:18 PM 5/21/07 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Tony Baechler, le Mon 21 May 2007 03:08:22 -0700, a écrit :
> > I'm looking for a file viewer program for plain text that's
> > console-based. I'm aware of more(1) and less(1) but that's not what
> > I had in mind. I want more than a pager. I would like something
> > like a DAISY reader but for plain text.
>
>It looks like you are looking for something that Sébastien wrote called
>"bless"
OK, what is the url? Debian Etch doesn't have it.
> > I thought about something like vi(1) but it doesn't
> > offer bookmarks
>
>It can remember the position where you were last time, see :help
>viminfo.
Yes, but it doesn't automatically scroll (or at least didn't many
years ago when I looked at the man page) and apparently has to read
the whole input file before starting. Some files are very large and
I don't want to wait for it to load.
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Tony Baechler
Baechler Productions
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