It is ultimately a user choice whether less or more is used by the
manual pager. The only reason more is used as the default is because
it's a required component of the base system. Less is twice the size of
more, which is why more is in the base system rather than less.
I suspect that more could
For a more functional presentation of the manual, I'd convert the manual
pages to HTML on the fly, and read them with lynx or another web browser.
I think this would be much more useful with the info pages. Info is
just as intuitive as vi (that is, not at all) and I think that makes it
a bad
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: Something ought to be done though, since more(1) can't be made to go
: backwards through manpages. This is rather a serious deficiency.
: HP-UX's more(1) doesn't allow you to go back at all. Ever. :)
Until HP-UX 10.X, at which point it has very less-ish
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