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On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote:
>
> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear
> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences),
> while less(1) when running as less does.
>
> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even
> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste
> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the
> more vocal ones when it comes to a change.

I find that behaviour infuriating

I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as  a 
reference, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* 
the info I wanted to use has gone away.