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Support for external pager

user7543419
Member Posts: 5
How do I get results sent to an external pager command (such as less/more)?
If there is currently no way to do this, I'd like to make this a feature request.
Being able to navigate/search query results with an external pager is a very useful thing and support for this should be a basic feature in my opinion.
Thanks.
Answers
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I achieve similar functionality via spool to a file and use my favourite text editor, vi (vim).
SQL> set _editor=vim
SQL> spool a_file.txt
SQL> select col1, ...coln from a_table where...
SQL> spool off
SQL> ed a_file.txt
...
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I though of that, but really? What a pain to have to do something like that around every query! BTW instead of 'ed a_file.txt' I'd probably use 'ho less a_file.txt;rm a_file.txt'.