Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:07:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more->less Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007120305170.427-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20000711130414.A7614@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: >On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: >> >> How about we don't :-). Let's just use whatever "more" is as the pager, >> the way it has always been. In new releases, more is less (or less is >> more, or something), so there shouldn't be a problem, right? > >Also more as a symlink to less isn't quite the same as less. It acts >like a proper more instead of like less. There are good an bad things >about less's behavior vs more, but using less via the symlink prevents >ugly POLA violations. > >-- Brooks Given that running less with the name more is supposed to make it act like more, didn't our real more support ctrl-c to terminate? less guising as more just beeps at me. I know q works to exit but I'm still used to programs stopping a currently running function or exiting when I hit ctrl-c, not just beep at me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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