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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: scott@statsci.com
Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to "fix" more(1) vs termcap/terminfo? 
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> My impression of the evolution of things is that things happened in
> roughly this order
> 
> 1) more doesn't use ti/te caps.
> 2) less does use ti/te caps for whatever reason.  Maybe just because it
>    gave the screen restoration behavior (that I find generally annoying)
>    under some termcap entries.
> 3) FreeBSD more acquires features from less (after all less is more :-)).

Actually, 4.4BSD more *IS* less that was hacked to behave more like
traditional more.  If you look at the sources to the 4.4 version of more
and less, they are very similar.

> but only if more than one screenful has been presented.  I think one or
> more of these should happen:
> 
> 1) the 'more' -e option should be modified to ALWAYS pause at EOF (as less
>    290 does).
> 2) 'more' should always ignore the ti/te caps.
> 3) 'more' should have an option to cause it to ignore the ti/te caps.
> 4) We should ignore the problem and tell people to remove the ti/te caps
>    from their "custom" termcap if they have this problem.
> 
> I think that, if I ever get time to do so, I'll probably do a send-pr with
> a patch to accomplish #1 above included.

I suspect that in the move to make 'less' more-like, something got lost
in the translation. :(


Nate