From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 12 14:47:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18384 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18365 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:46:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA09762; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:42:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:42:09 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Max Euston cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" Subject: Re: Modifications to more(1) In-Reply-To: <01BD37B9.6FDEED00.meuston@jmrodgers.com> 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 Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Max Euston wrote: > this leads me to believe that this option is out-of-date (also > it does not follow the standard). My question is: should I fix > the -# option or remove it (my vote is to remove it - see > below). How long has it been broken? If it was broken in the last release or two, then probably no-one has noticed and it should just disappear. > 3) Use the LINES= environment variable (ala vi(1)) to set the screen height 4) [totally optional :-]. Handle long lines in the extreme better. If you have a long file with no \n or \r, and more down to near the end, then press `k' or `b', it will `k' or `b' v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. Hehe. Good luck! :) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message