Steve Lamb wrote: > > -----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?"
well, now i _must_ respond. that wasn´t ed´s line, but mine. should i know wright : geez, people who couldn´t read a mail? no, i will not. please, please, be friendly. > > > 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 let´s agree to: different people like different ways. hafi
