On Thu, May 17, 2007, Caleb Epstein wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Ralf S. Engelschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > $ export PAGER="less -E -r"
>
> This reminds me to complain about the variables exported by OpenPKG's
> "rc.less":
>
> * I find the use of "-E" (quit-et-eof) in PAGER to be annoying. I
> often bounce from the bottom of a man page back up, so exiting at EOF
> is really annoying.
>
> * Why do you include "-r" (display raw control-chars) in the PAGER
> variable when this can corrupt the user's terminal settings?
>
> * Using lesspipe for LESSOPEN causes "less +F" not to work (doesn't
> continue checking the file after it hits EOF). This may be more of a
> less bug than one in OpenPKG. The use of +F should imply -L, so I'm
> going to try to remember to type both from now on.
>
> I would recommend changing the PAGER setting to just
> "<openpkg>/bin/less" and let folks who want to customize these
> settings do so themselves rather than making them the default.
Ok, changed. I've removed "-E -r" in rc.less in CURRENT now. It was
there just because of my personal preference as nobody ever complained
about it until now...
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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