John Plocher 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. > > -John I think this is going a bit far.
As near as I can tell, nobody has stepped up to address the problems with less either, making this a hypothetical discussion. The assertion has been that less, with its current flaws/regressions should simply replace more (with its current flaws, but note, no regressions [from itself]). I don't see any money on the table. Until we have a project which proposes to make less appropriate (and even if we did), I think its completely reasonable for Joerg to suggest that another solution might be preferable. Isn't that what this process is all about? What complicates things here is that more than half the content of these cases is stylistic in nature, with what I feel is very little data on what the predominantly preferred style is. - jek3
