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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:05:38 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.lib.mk sys.mk src/sys/conf kern.post.mk kmod.mk
Message-ID:  <20020401170538.D95927@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203302136.g2ULa6PL025669@grimreaper.grondar.org>; from mark@grondar.za on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:36:06PM %2B0000
References:  <20020330013157.A22664@hub.freebsd.org> <200203302136.g2ULa6PL025669@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:36:06PM +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> > > If these are going to be revisited, I wouldn't mind if the end-of-line
> > > redirector was set to " 2>&1 | cat". This would help make "make lint | less"
> > > more sane in the face of mixed stdout and stderr output.
> > 
> > What was the reasoning for the redirection?  Can you give an example of
> > what output you are trying to affect?  The current "| more" is quite
> > annoying.  Do we remove it, or go with the cat above?
> 
> The "2>&1 | more" thing was from the earliest days. I liked it because it
> allowed me to type less.

Is it still needed?  When I used `make lint |less' things were more sane
w/o the "2>&1 | more".

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