Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 03/05/07, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > > "less" is a pain to use compared to "more", for this reason it should not > > > become > > > the default. > > > > That's extremely subjective. Personally, I hate "more." I never use > > it. I always change my PAGER to /usr/bin/less after setting up a > > Solaris installation. Not being able to use my cursor keys to scroll > > up and down, having some of the output stolen by the more prompt, and > > not having working page up and page down keys is infuriating. > > > > This whole case is about having a *better* default that most users > > would appreciate. I think most users would appreciate less as a > > default. > > An enhanced "more" is easier to achieve than to fix all the bugs > in "less".
Erm, I disagree in this case. We would need /usr/xpg4/bin/more as starting point to avoid the multibyte issues in /usr/bin/more (which is not CSI-enabled), do lots of bugfixing +feature worl and then convince ARC or however is responsible for that to get rid of /usr/bin/more and replace it with the new /usr/xpg4/bin/more codebase. This is lots of work which I really _like_ to do. Unfortunately I don't have time in the following months which forces me to propose the 2nd-best option - which is "less" (and "less" can't be _that_ bad since all the Linux distributions use it as default viewer for /usr/bin/man). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
