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, which I'm not sure I agree is "minor".
That said, in principal, I tend to strongly agree. - jek3
