Edbrowse as a pager

[galaxor]

I would like to use edbrowse as a pager, like more or less. But piping something to edbrowse will cause edbrowse to interpret the input as commands, rather than as a file to edit. There should be an option that's like "--as-pager" or something.

[eklhad]

I would like to use edbrowse as a pager, like more or less.

we've talked about this for, well, for years.
Probably easy to do and I'd do it, but I never use pagers,
so I'm not even sure how it should work.
Perhaps - as a file name reads stdin and then you can look through that.

edbrowse -

Or maybe some other way.
Or maybe the interactive session changes,
cause running less is definitely not like running an editor.
So I'm just not sure what to do.

Meantime you can write a little script.

#!/bin/sh

ebpager script

cat >/tmp/ebpage$$.temp
edbrowse /tmp/ebpage$$.temp </dev/tty
rm /tmp/ebpage$$.temp

Karl Dahlke