Re: Recent change in less(1)

From: Ted Lindgreen <ted_at_tednet.nl>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:21:10 +0200
[Quoting Daniel Eischen, on Aug 10, 14:44, in "Re: Recent change in ..."]
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Ted Lindgreen wrote:
> 
> > [Quoting Daniel Eischen, on Aug  7, 15:41, in "Re: Recent change in ..."]
> > ....
> >>> If so I have a question: how to obtain the former behaviour of the -e
> >>> switch, i.e. quit when EOF is hit twice always (thus whether or not
> >>> when the file happens to fit on a single page)?
> >>
> >> Perhaps:
> >>
> >>  	if (less_is_more) {
> >>  		no_init = TRUE;
> >>  		if (get_quit_at_eof())
> >>  			quit_if_one_screen = TRUE;
> >>  	}
> >
> > Daniel, are you going to check this fix in?
> >
> > (Or must we live with broken "-e" functionality in future, in which
> > case at least the man-page should be updated to reflect the new
> > behaviour IMHO).
> 
> I don't know.  Does it work the way it is suppose to with this
> patch?

Above patch indeed fixes the problem I have reported, i.e. it
restores the original behaviour of the "-e" functionality of
less(1).

regards,
-- ted
Received on Sat Aug 11 2007 - 06:21:20 UTC

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