From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 14:22:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C8337B66C for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:32876 "HELO ertr1013.student.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:21:36 +0200 Received: (qmail 890 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Jul 2000 21:20:34 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:20:33 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Morten Seeberg Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more showing characters instead of % Message-ID: <20000727232033.A808@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Morten Seeberg , questions@freebsd.org References: <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos>; from morten@seeberg.dk on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:06:55PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:06:55PM +0100, Morten Seeberg wrote: > Ehh a couple of us FreeBSD users are wondering why more now uses characters > instead of % when showing how far down a file you are?? > This is because more has been replaced by less. > This is in our opinion a bit wierd and problematic, because you rarely know > how long your file is, when you use more, or at least when we use more :) > > With % you always have an idea whether your file is 1k long or 20k long, if > this is the way to implement more in the future, is there an option to more, > so that I can make an alias that gives me % in more? > Yes, there is. -m (or -M) is the option you want. You can also put default options for less in the environment variable LESS so you don't need any aliases. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message