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Feature request: make ? print page by page like man in Linux #36460

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affans opened this issue Jun 27, 2020 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #41423
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Feature request: make ? print page by page like man in Linux #36460

affans opened this issue Jun 27, 2020 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #41423
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affans commented Jun 27, 2020

In a terminal window, when I type in ?foo it prints out the entire documentation (ending with complicated examples often) and I often have to scroll all the way to get the function signature. In contrast, typing in ?foo in the R REPL launches documentation as a "window" starting at the top where one and scroll up and down and press q to exit.

Is it possible to do something like this in the ? mode of the REPL?

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thofma commented Jun 28, 2020

Related discussion on pager support: #6921

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Cross-linking related discussion about using a pager with "extended docs": #34226

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vtjnash commented Apr 9, 2021

With #38956 merged, someone should be able to make this work in the REPL now

@vtjnash vtjnash added the good first issue Indicates a good issue for first-time contributors to Julia label Apr 9, 2021
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is this solved? I don't see help opening a new window when ? is used.

Pramodh-G pushed a commit to Pramodh-G/julia that referenced this issue Jun 30, 2021
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