Joerg Schilling wrote: > Did you ever notice any problems with less? If not, you > are probably the wrong person for such a discussion.
I've noticed lots of problems with less. Some of them are bugs, some are RFEs and some are simply that the design center for less is different than what I would have chosen. Nevertheless, I still use less, even though I set PAGER=more. > Do you know about problems wth more? Certainly. I've noticed lots of problems with more. Some of them are bugs, some are RFEs and some are simply that the design center for more is different than what I would have chosen. Nevertheless, I still use PAGER=more, even though it doesn't meet all of my needs/desires. For those times I explicitly invoke less, tee, grep and other filters. > Do you know exactcy what's probably missing in more? Does it matter? Especially since I doubt I'm going to spend the effort to change it? While less and more live in the same problem-space, each has chosen to address the PAGER problem in different ways. Neither is perfect, because much of this space is usability and preference, and that, in turn, is tightly tied to the individual in question: what problems she is encountering and how she prefers to work. If /you/ feel strongly about more(1), then, by all means, please step up and work on it. Fix its bugs and add new features. Make it a better utility. Roland seems to feel just as strongly about less(1). In the same way, /he/ seems to be stepping up to fix its bugs and add new features so that it becomes a better utility. OpenSolaris as a whole would be improved if it had both a new more /and/ a new less. Users like myself would see a win-win situation. And, if one of you didn't manage to get traction, but the other did, OpenSolaris would still benefit. There is no downside to letting others improve the parts of the system that they wish to work on. The only downside I see is if we all waste time talking these ideas to death without anyone actually implementing anything... -John
