Unable to scroll documentation pane

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An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI.

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Unable to scroll documentation pane #159

Closed mmautner closed 6 years ago

mmautner commented 7 years ago

How do I scroll the help documentation pane in the bottom half of my aws-shell?

I'm happy to add the answer to the README, but not sure how to do it myself.

donnemartin commented 7 years ago

Hi @mmautner, I don't think this is possible at the moment.

mmautner commented 7 years ago

Thanks @donnemartin -- I figure the answer lies somewhere in prompt-toolkit's docs.

Here is the window containing the docs from the awscli:

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell/blob/ab5ed9ae6f397d5ba98fd274716af265ababb468/awsshell/ui.py#L179-L186

so0k commented 7 years ago

Facing the same issue - saws actually opens the documentation link in the browser, which I'd prefer if window scrolling isn't possible

statwonk commented 7 years ago

Is it possible in emacs mode? Looking for the same functionality. @JordonPhillips I think making aws-shell comfortable for developers would really help the bottom line. Most expert developers I know still use a fairly even mix of web console / cli. Moving faster means more consumption. :)

briantully commented 7 years ago

aha! I thought I was going crazy and spend close to an hour trying to figure out why I couldn't focus on the documentation pane and scroll it. The last line visible in the documentation pane was "AVAILABLE COMMANDS" and without a way of scrolling to see the actual commands, I feel this pane does more harm than good?

joguSD commented 6 years ago

Ability to focus the documentation pane to navigate it as well as use the scroll wheel have been added in https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell/pull/138