Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:31:58 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: groggy11@mail.com Cc: marknu@flash.net, bug-less@gnu.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LESS pager Message-ID: <200107312331.f6VNVwm07561@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:10:06 GMT." <200107312010.f6VKA6G35096@en28.groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>
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> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:10:06 GMT > From: groggy11@mail.com > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Try most from /usr/ports/misc/most. It's a MUCH more powerful page than less. Less is more and more is less, but neither is most.;-) It has far more flexibility including a toggle for case sensitivity and multiple windows (text) open on on or more files and lots of other good stuff. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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