Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:21:10 +0200 From: ted@tednet.nl (Ted Lindgreen) To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Ted Lindgreen <ted@tednet.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent change in less(1) Message-ID: <200708110821.l7B8LAWY000496@omval.tednet.nl> In-Reply-To: "Daniel Eischen's message as of Aug 10, 14:44"
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[Quoting Daniel Eischen, on Aug 10, 14:44, in "Re: Recent change in ..."]
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Ted Lindgreen wrote:
>
> > [Quoting Daniel Eischen, on Aug 7, 15:41, in "Re: Recent change in ..."]
> > ....
> >>> If so I have a question: how to obtain the former behaviour of the -e
> >>> switch, i.e. quit when EOF is hit twice always (thus whether or not
> >>> when the file happens to fit on a single page)?
> >>
> >> Perhaps:
> >>
> >> if (less_is_more) {
> >> no_init = TRUE;
> >> if (get_quit_at_eof())
> >> quit_if_one_screen = TRUE;
> >> }
> >
> > Daniel, are you going to check this fix in?
> >
> > (Or must we live with broken "-e" functionality in future, in which
> > case at least the man-page should be updated to reflect the new
> > behaviour IMHO).
>
> I don't know. Does it work the way it is suppose to with this
> patch?
Above patch indeed fixes the problem I have reported, i.e. it
restores the original behaviour of the "-e" functionality of
less(1).
regards,
-- ted
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