On 03/05/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > An enhanced "more" is easier to achieve than to fix all the bugs > > in "less". > > Are you stepping up to do the work to enhance "more"? > If you are not willing to put your money where your > mouth is, please don't discourage those who are. > > AFAICT, this is not about removing more(1) from the system, > but updating less(1) and setting up the man command to use > the new less(1) instead of more(1) if PAGER is not set. > > If your shell startup script sets PAGER=/usr/bin/more, > you won't even be affected by this discussion.
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 :) I just want a better default, that's all. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
