On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 5:40 PM, enh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 04/21/2016 07:42 PM, enh wrote: > > having more(1) be the simplest possible thing probably best matches > the intentions of anyone who deliberately chooses more(1) over less(1) > anyway.
What I don't understand is why anyone would. I don't think I've used more(1) in at least two decades, and possibly three. As soon as I discovered less, I clutched it to my chest and didn't let go. (I *did* use pg a bit under SysV in places I didn't have/couldn't install less.) I use ports of less under MSDOS and Windows, too. I suppose there are some scripts out there coded to call more. For those cases, I'd be tempted to symlink less to more, because http://linux.die.net/man/1/less "Compatibility with More If the environment variable LESS_IS_MORE is set to 1, or if the program is invoked via a file link named "more", less behaves (mostly) in conformance with the POSIX "more" command specification. In this mode, less behaves differently in these ways: The -e option works differently. If the -e option is not set, less behaves as if the -E option were set. If the -e option is set, less behaves as if the -e and -F options were set. The -m option works differently. If the -m option is not set, the medium prompt is used, and it is prefixed with the string "--More--". If the -m option is set, the short prompt is used. The -n option acts like the -z option. The normal behavior of the -n option is unavailable in this mode. The parameter to the -p option is taken to be a less command rather than a search pattern. The LESS environment variable is ignored, and the MORE environment variable is used in its place." and see whether anyone even *noticed*. > Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
