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Tim Vanderhoek writes:
> FWIW, I ran this for 2+ months here and I'm finally getting used to

The thing is - you can get used to anything. I'm not exactly convinced that
we need to change commands of some program (which is more or less standard in
UN*X) just because somebody thought that he would fell better if it would be
different. ``more'' is not ``vi'', mind you. It's not supposed to behave
the same.

> 'N' not being the same as ':n'.  However, I'm sure I'm not the only
> person who routinely pressed 'N' expecting it to work like in vi, only
> to get either an error or booted to the next file.  I'm convinced the
> change should be made.
> 
> The magic incantation to return 'N' to its normal function is:

"... to its _normal_ function" -- good point.

> 
> $ echo "macro 1 N 'file next \${number}'" > ~/.morerc
> $
> 
> Eventually a map command needs to be added so that simple changes
> like this are less likely to require obscure programmer syntax.
> 
> 
> -- 
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-- dima


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