Pager that stops on form feeds

pager

Is there a pager that stops on form feeds?

When I'm reading RFCs, I can read them like this:

$ less -z57 rfc748.txt

This will keep the pager lined up with the pages, but this is a bit of a hack, and when I do a search I'd prefer it to line up the screen with the page boundaries. The page boundaries are marked with form feeds.

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more does this by default:

Once more has obtained input, it displays as much as can fit on the current screen and waits for user input to advance, with the exception that a form feed (^L) will also cause more to wait at that line, regardless of the amount of text on the screen.

To disable this behavior, use the -l option.

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Vim – How to Scroll Large Datafile While Keeping Header

If you're familiar with vim, this is probably the best option for you. You can enable horizontal-scroll-bind-only by changing 'scrollopt':

set scrollopt=hor

So with vim -u NONE, you get the desired behavior with:

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:set nowrap
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You may want to adjust 'sidescroll' and 'sidescrolloff' to change how many columns are skipped and how far from the edge skipping starts respectively.

A pager

As the name implies, roughly a pager is a piece of software that helps the user get the output one page at a time, by getting the size of rows of the terminal and displaying that many lines.

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