On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Brooks Davis wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
>>
>> How about we don't :-). Let's just use whatever "more" is as the pager,
>> the way it has always been. In new releases, more is less (or less is
>> more, or something), so there shouldn't be a problem, right?
>
>Also more as a symlink to less isn't quite the same as less. It acts
>like a proper more instead of like less. There are good an bad things
>about less's behavior vs more, but using less via the symlink prevents
>ugly POLA violations.
>
>-- Brooks
Given that running less with the name more is supposed to make it act like
more, didn't our real more support ctrl-c to terminate? less guising as
more just beeps at me. I know q works to exit but I'm still used to
programs stopping a currently running function or exiting when I hit
ctrl-c, not just beep at me.
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