variable line-display pager?

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011:
> > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay
> > chunks of N lines of a text files.  Here N <= the number of lines in
> > the file.
> > 
> > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines.
> > My text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less
> > or some GUI pager to display only 15 lines at one time.  Tapping the 
> > space bar would display another 15 lines and so on until EOF.  Is
> > there a way of doing with with flags of the existing /usr/bin/less
> > or is there some other pager that I can build?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > gary
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> The -z option is supposed to do this:
> 
> less -z15 file.txt
> 
> But it appears to work only on the second and successive pages.



Oh.  So _that's_ why.  I tried less -m 15 [because the man pages
sais z=N;  i just tried what you did with -z15.  Full page first
time, 15 lines each spacebar thereafter.

Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else?   I'm loathe to use anything gui,
but here's  where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can
squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into.  Can'y believe that
there is nothing for all theses years....  I mean, geewhiz!
Any idea where I Should look in ports or how to google this?


gary

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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
          The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org