Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:27:18 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: groggy11@mail.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LESS pager Message-ID: <20010731162718.B38416@comp04.prc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <200107312010.f6VKA6G35096@en28.groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>; from groggy11@mail.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:10:06PM %2B0000 References: <200107312010.f6VKA6G35096@en28.groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>
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> freebsd has adopted "less" as the system pager since 4.0 series. it > requires that you enter ":p" and ":n" for "previous" and "next" file > > this is very cumbersome, esp if you got more than a few files open > ... IMHO this should be modified to allow :P :N as well. it is a > real pain to to all this SHIFT-COLON UNSHIFT-p / SHIFT-COLON > UNSHIFT-n stuff just to go to the prev/next file. > > i would at least like to keep the shift key down. better yet - it > would be nice to assign one lowercase letter to those functions > ... ??? they are too common and the need for speed and efficiency > exists in such cases for those functions to be encumbered by > multiple quircky keystrokes. Do it yourself: $ cat <<EOF >.lesskey n next-file p prev-file EOF $ lesskey See less(1) and lesskey(1). Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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