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
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