From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 18 15:27:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09252 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ppp6496.on.bellglobal.com (ppp6496.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08860 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6496.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA01258; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:04:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp6496.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:04:35 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Max Euston cc: "'ac199@hwcn.org'" , "'FreeBSD Hackers'" Subject: RE: Modifications to more(1) In-Reply-To: <01BD3C4C.4336FC60.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 [This was moved back to the list from email, with my endorsement] On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Max Euston wrote: > From the code: it is to set the screen height of the terminal > (override TERM=); you can quickly see this in 'more/option.c'. > > From an (old) AT&T SVR4 system: '-#' does not exist, but '+#' is used to > start paging at line '#' and '+/' is to start paging at the RE . > (Was it's intended use? - I don't know, but probably so). Well, I've never used it; toss it. :) It didn't work in 2.2.0-RELEASE (nor probably before that), and no one noticed. > BTW: style(9) is _very_ close to my own personal preference (that made me All style guides are wrong. Style should reflect functionality. How can the functionality of a thousand-line program, or the functionality of the gazillion different combinations of keywords, identifiers, and operators composing one logical operation ever possibly be reflected in a ~2000 word document? :-) -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message