yeah, i'm pretty sure 100% of our more(1) users are using because we don't have less. the sad part is that Android might be creating more more(1) users because we're retraining their muscle memory :-)
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:04 PM, dmccunney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
