From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 23:48:51 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEE04119; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x22d.google.com (mail-pa0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 863B382C; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by paceu11 with SMTP id eu11so3412018pac.10; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:48:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Mg19Ycv5Z6bjNmvTORGibXepT2IUr/DDZmBJZ3XlC88=; b=dg2ZmkxcmhDcatG3eLF2PdOrXyFbu/zz4y3NcjVJvDK5tIIgS1dLx3RRrB+9VIvJQ3 3coaeynNgExWE34jUX/Qcq7dartI0ei/q/V8IlEqs5EGoYrGR1Dl8meLDoufjQSz/Cxp gA9NdaYiLQI1PG9pycLpkqSezif48iSo4agynASECxYGaBdvW94ZVsZBB/6l7oIsODE5 zYZ7J3dZvYr1aKipGNXED79olvMB6Zmi9e3dSWUgFdqH5nRTHNC1LPtdJIBEAF2cNnHt NIhbxhn6JOGgzNCPlDYi/7l8a+0JQEMHcMQIeejaG4ZjR2nwuP4Tfu2pCBX1AgoHB/JA N9SQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.242.163 with SMTP id wr3mr11669015pbc.159.1424389731022; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:48:51 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.67.30.198 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:48:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <54E5232F.3060409@delphij.net> <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org> <54E66C90.10902@mu.org> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:48:50 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: P0K27Gz-s-_dwDJ3derryYJGElo Message-ID: Subject: Re: default pager (csh) From: Kevin Oberman To: Daniel Eischen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Davide Italiano , Alfred Perlstein , Xin LI , Chris H , freebsd-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:48:51 -0000 On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> >> Not as annoying as people who don't search the web for an answer for >> things. >> >> ~ % export PAGER="less -X" >> >> everyone please stop crying over small changes, it really sucks. >> >> > Not sure what you are saying, but the question posed is changing > the default pager. So that means: > > o all users who like the current more(1) behavior have to define > and override PAGER. > > o all users who like the less(1) behavior remove their override > of PAGER > > Or leave things alone, and users who want less(1) behavior > override PAGER, which they've probably already done if it's > that annoying to them. > > The answer seems pretty simple to me. > > -- > DE > > I still want my purple and yellow bikeshed and most(1). No matter when happens, a lot of people will need to undertake the massive and painful effort of defining PAGER. I realize this is a terrible burden for may of them. Let's call the whole thing off and maybe do something useful. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com