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Chase 2020-06-24T15:57:00.221700Z

Not sure if this is a vim or fireplace thing but say I open a big file with slurp it takes me to a buffer and at the bottom it says -- More -- I can't escape out of this. C-c does nothing. C-d gives me a small menu option, including q: quit but that does nothing either. I have to just keep pressing enter for more until it's done. What am I doing wrong here?

dominicm 2020-06-24T16:24:23.221800Z

vim thing

dominicm 2020-06-24T16:27:30.221900Z

@chase-lambert See :help more-prompt

dominicm 2020-06-24T16:27:46.222Z

You could :set nomore

dominicm 2020-06-24T16:27:56.222100Z

which I find to be a funny option name 😁

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dominicm 2020-06-24T16:28:13.222200Z

Hmm, q maybe doesn't work anymore due to streaming? It did at some point

dominicm 2020-06-24T16:28:25.222300Z

G works too, which is something I use often.

dominicm 2020-06-24T16:29:02.222400Z

Apparently <C-Y> will do something to yank it, interesting, gotta try that one

Chase 2020-06-24T16:36:56.222800Z

Ahh, G of course. That will work fine. Thank you!

2020-06-24T17:27:31.223600Z

haha wow - after years at the command line, it baffled me to see that someone wouldn't know what to do at a -- More -- prompt

2020-06-24T17:27:45.224Z

but of course if you've never seen one, it's totally bizarre

2020-06-24T17:28:25.224800Z

(back in the day, less didn't exist, and the more pager only accepted space / G / etc. and didn't understand arrow keys)

2020-06-24T17:28:35.225100Z

it also couldn't scroll up lol

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Chase 2020-06-24T17:28:53.225500Z

And I use G all the time, even in the browser with vimium. lol

2020-06-24T17:29:10.225800Z

also space scrolls a page, even in a browser

Chase 2020-06-24T17:30:01.226500Z

It still seems inefficient to send the cursor all the way to the bottom to let me exit instead of having q work

2020-06-24T17:30:13.226700Z

agreed

dominicm 2020-06-24T17:33:39.227200Z

q is supposed to work, I suspect there's something else at play.

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