@giordano btw, would CTRL solve your problem? Like CTRL + arrows? I can make a switch to use CTRL instead SHIFT to modify the “speed”.
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An option for scrolling the docs like this might be a great enhancements for Base Julia IMHO!
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Yeah, not in scope for that feature, it’s just for vertical scrolling. ? mode doesn’t use it yet by default for long docstrings, but shouldn’t be much work to do, I just didn’t have the time to do the integration (nice first issue for someone to tackle perhaps.)
(Very cool package @Ronis_BR.)
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I think Ctrl + arrows is available in Konsole. I think a customisable switch for the user would be great, I can expect different terminal emulators have different keybindings. Thanks!
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I wasn’t expecting these kind of problems. Different terminal apps select some key codes that are not passed to the application. Does anyone know if there is a global option to avoid this and receive all the key codes ? In macOS Terminal.app, Page Up scroll the screen up (the screen itself, not the pager). However, less seems to fix it somehow. I need to discover how it can be done.
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Can you please test main branch? I just push a commit with a WIP keybinding systems:
julia> using TerminalPager
julia> TerminalPager.set_keybinding(:right, alt = true, :fastright)
julia> TerminalPager.set_keybinding(:left, alt = true, :fastleft)
julia> TerminalPager.set_keybinding(:up, alt = true, :fastup)
julia> TerminalPager.set_keybinding(:down, alt = true, :fastdown)
julia> rand(100,100) |> pager
And now you can move fast in all directions using ALT + arrows. If you want CTRL change alt keyword to ctrl (I could not test it because my OS hijack CTRL + arrow)
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Ctrl works for me, Alt doesn’t, thanks! (the help still mentions Shift though)
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Yes, I did not add the code to change help according to the custom user definitions yet. Thanks for the feedback!!
I think it would already be a significant improvement over the current (default) @less implementation, which periodically crashes my REPL 
Does TerminalPager.jl support control chars like colours? That’d be important for stuff like docstrings
Nice!
It also crashes a lot here. I tried that before coding this package.
Yes! In fact, handling escape sequences are a major challenge. Right now, I am not processing them to verify which one must be applied when cropping the screen, I am just writing all. See for example the documentation of pretty_table cropped:
Some of color control sequences are placed before the left most column. Nevertheless, the color is still right.
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