From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 12 0: 7:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1A837BC5E for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA12724 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:07:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:07:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more->less In-Reply-To: <20000711130414.A7614@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: >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 Given that running less with the name more is supposed to make it act like more, didn't our real more support ctrl-c to terminate? less guising as more just beeps at me. I know q works to exit but I'm still used to programs stopping a currently running function or exiting when I hit ctrl-c, not just beep at me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message