Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, that is exactly what many of us are trying to say. > > > > If we just add all of the changes and functionality of less to more, I > > don't see the point of having both :) > > Well, I have no problem with living without "less" ;-) > > Doing it the other way round would be harder to implement. > It is just very improbable that someone would be able to > fix the terminal handling bugs from less, in special as they might > be a result of using libcurses... > > Adding UTF-8 support to more looks like a task that is plannable.
Ugggrlll... IMHO it would be _much_ better to use the encoding-independent multibyte APIs instead of creating another unicode-centric monstrosity (otherwise ja_JP.PCK and zh_CN.GB18030 users will start throwing bricks at you... _large_ bricks...) ... ... but AFAIK /usr/xpg4/bin/more already handles that job properly. But /usr/xpg4/bin/more would still require lots of other work and before doing that I prefer to look whether there are alternatives which can do the job _now_ (instead of eating lots of my free time to clone lots of "less"'s functionaliy). ---- Bye Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
