From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 13: 4:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E194937BBAF; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08808; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:04:14 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Robert Watson Cc: laa@laa.zp.ua, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more->less Message-ID: <20000711130414.A7614@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > How about we don't :-). Let's just use whatever "more" is as the pager, > the way it has always been. In new releases, more is less (or less is > more, or something), so there shouldn't be a problem, right? Also more as a symlink to less isn't quite the same as less. It acts like a proper more instead of like less. There are good an bad things about less's behavior vs more, but using less via the symlink prevents ugly POLA violations. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message