On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:34:55PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> So we shall make the 'more -> less' change then?
After some thinking my opinion is yes. I do not see how we
could cope with different behaviour of variants of 'more'
so insisting on 'less' is reasonable.
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On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 02:40:07PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> On 3/3/24 14:20, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> > My 'more' has no '-e' option. If this option is given it just
> > complains.
>
> Hmmm, that may well be. Are you working with a BSD version of "more"?
$ more -V
more from util-linux
On 3/3/24 14:20, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
My 'more' has no '-e' option. If this option is given it just
complains.
Hmmm, that may well be. Are you working with a BSD version of "more"?
Is there a way to figure out the minimal set of common options that we
can rely on?
This is obviously not
On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 02:35:57PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> On 2/7/24 14:12, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:34:55PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> > > So we shall make the 'more -> less' change then?
> >
> > I will wait few days for possible additional info or ideas.
>
> I
On 2/7/24 14:12, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:34:55PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
So we shall make the 'more -> less' change then?
I will wait few days for possible additional info or ideas.
I would be for a change to using 'less', but as Waldek said, that might
not be
On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:34:55PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> So we shall make the 'more -> less' change then?
I will wait few days for possible additional info or ideas.
It is unfortunate that modern Linux distributions tends to
break traditional usage patterns: AFAIK on "virgin" Debian
system
So we shall make the 'more -> less' change then?
- Qian
On 2/7/24 08:37, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 07:52:25AM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
If the file is less than one page, "more" will exit directly.
Can you reproduce this on your machine?
Yes, indeed.
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 07:52:25AM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> If the file is less than one page, "more" will exit directly.
>
> Can you reproduce this on your machine?
Yes, indeed.
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If the file is less than one page, "more" will exit directly.
Can you reproduce this on your machine?
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On 2/5/24 07:41, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 07:44:32PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
When DISPLAY is set, 'xterm -e "more +$line $name"' quits directly
without waiting for
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 07:44:32PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> When DISPLAY is set, 'xterm -e "more +$line $name"' quits directly
> without waiting for key press.
>
> "less" doesn't have this problem.
We use 'more' because it is standard command: it is supposed to
be available even in a minimal
When DISPLAY is set, 'xterm -e "more +$line $name"' quits directly
without waiting for key press.
"less" doesn't have this problem.
- Qian
diff --git a/src/etc/SPADEDIT b/src/etc/SPADEDIT
index be6002f6..1c5cd2d1 100755
--- a/src/etc/SPADEDIT
+++ b/src/etc/SPADEDIT
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ if [ $# -eq
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