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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.  



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