-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 19:00:56 -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>Steve Lamb wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 Gotta love people who don't know how to delete lines, eh? Geez. >> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 22:08:34 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> >> >yeah, but why so complicated? >> >mc is just wonderful for things like that. >> >> Because mc isn't a pager. :) > From original message: "I am wondering about way to grep or to >view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files." From your message "yeah, but why so complicated?" > He never specified the solution must be a pager, but if it must >be a pager, then 'most' can do this just as easily as 'less' >does. MC is still my first choice, though. zgrep foo bar.gz seems to be (z)less complicated than mc -c, going down to the file, then <esc>3/F3 to view it, *then* do a search, in my book. Use the tools that are there, not focus on one. :P - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBN2LnGnpf7K2LbpnFEQJsjgCdFcyW759Wq6i+MirmBLIY57o3ZjYAnjbj 5PE7LHCcoEe2fo775ecoRVUR =R1/V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----