Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:20:57 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "d@delphij.net" <d@delphij.net> Subject: Re: default pager (csh) Message-ID: <04CE7196-9CD7-4437-BDA1-CA842F4A2A6E@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org> References: <CACYV=-GBD5FmnsQr=KC6Wc9qZ9UAFPQgPmNyS5Jr6Vs2G7dGjA@mail.gmail.com> <54E5232F.3060409@delphij.net> <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org>
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> On 19 Feb 2015, at 09:16, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 >> On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: >>=20 >> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear >> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), >> while less(1) when running as less does. >>=20 >> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even >> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste >> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the >> more vocal ones when it comes to a change. >=20 > I find that behaviour infuriating >=20 > I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as a referen= ce, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* the info I w= anted to use has gone away. Yeah, that drives me nuts too, Debian had (has?) this and it's a no-go for m= e. Changing options for man would be nice though, so finding something near t= he end of the page won't exit the pager.
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