Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > >> 1. My primary concern is the choice for PAGER. I know that /usr/bin/less > >> has some holes (I am very unhappy about the issues with "/usr/bin/less > >> vs. zh_CN.GB18030&co." - much work has been invested into ksh93 to get > >> it properly working with multibyte locales (even the non-UTF-8 ones) and > >> now I have to propose the PAGER=/usr/bin/less thing... ;-( ) but it > >> would _improve_ the usuablity situation at least to a level which is in > >> sync with Linux (and most Linux users live happily with this choice). > >> > > > > "more" and "p" are pagers that behave forgivingly if the size of the > > terminal is wrong or is a TERMCAP/TERMINFO is not optimal. "less" makes > > the man output very hard to read in such a case. I propose to rather > > fix minor problems in "more" than to switch to "less" as a default for > > $PAGER. > > > > J?rg > > > Could you clarify the "minor problems"? I thought one was lack of cursor > navigation,
No, it's more than cursor navigation which /usr/bin/more and /usr/xpg4/bin/more are lacking. Things like "editable" search pattern (e.g. hit '/' and edit the regular expression (gmacs/emacs-style) until you like it) or highlighting (e.g. reverse video) of search results or marks in files are very popular. > which I'm not sure I agree is "minor". I'd like to see a full list of issues since I never saw issues in daily life (yes, yes, I can craft a testcase to get "less" fail horribly but that's not what normal users do...) with "less" ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
