On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Steven S. Critchfield<[email protected]> wrote: > > One of my complaints with less is that it does things in ways that > I have become accustomed to using in more. Example, when I end a > listing in more, I get to keep the display on the screen. Nice if I > am using it like a poormans grep and didn't know how much context I > was going to need. > > There is also zmore and bzmore too. > > I will admit that the limitation in more to hold a buffer when it > is used as part of a pipe is annoying. Less has a buffer and allows > a little bit of forgiveness when you wanted to paginate your ls > output and you skipped over the part you needed. > > You comment about searching like vi(m), more does searching as well.
Steven, What prompted this was that I needed to read a bzip2 log file and just on chance I tried bzless. I agree that more does leave the output on the screen and that can be useful. I was unaware that more would allow searches, which is great! Can you go back pages in more like you can in less? and can you scroll a line at a time in more? or only a page at a time? Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
