[plug] Pager line-based filtering

[Tim White]

James Devenish wrote:

>In message <20040925092222.GA23582 at cp.yi.org>
>on Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:22:22PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
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>>I presume that just using 'grep' and piping it through less isn't good
>>enough for you?
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>Well, that is the "poor man's" solution, which is sometimes okay but
>always unwieldy. I do not necessarily know in advance what patterns I
>wish to use, and I do not necessarily know how many lines of context
>I want around each match. I would saw that vim is sufficiently
>featureful, but I was hoping there was something available in the
>'pager' category (rather than 'editor').
>
 From memory pressing \ then typing some text and pressing enter will 
highlight all instances of the search term and take you to the next 
occurrence. By then pressing \, up, enter it will take you to the next 
instance. (Not sure if there is a shortcut but there probably is. Not 
sure if this is good enough for what you want. Else use VIM in read only 
viewer mode.
Tim