-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Great quote for the OP on the thread. I for one would be for switching it to ‘less -M’ then it would respect a users wish to use environment variables LESS and LESSPIPE but still carry the traditional behavior. On Feb 18, 2015, at 17:18, Davide Italiano <davide_at_freebsd.org> wrote: Hi, one of the first things I do when I install FreeBSD is to switch the default PAGER from more(1) to less(1). This is particularly convenient, e.g. while using git diff, to show something more readable. Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why more(1) is still the default, and/or is this just historical? - -- Davide "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved" -- Henri Poincare _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers_at_freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" - -- Jason Hellenthal Mobile: +1 (616) 953-0176 jhellenthal_at_DataIX.net JJH48-ARIN -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJU5R6bAAoJEDLu+wRc4KcIB8YH+wdyVQNGRPqtzdiEKAR1dGJB jc4q+2+RMs1GpDNsFzjdFBgM30MiwinZ/USZJGzWLoA7lqIHZmpM1PzsvSdMQ0oR 5e9atR+tOVkDMp6P5xXyjj6HNEwRCUv+FmHAzajpJYHqEArpms3H+MUSz8ytgiu6 sJfxpGAY0woaK/sINDV01GfYYneoqqRZtvOioSNVp94+Wtd74o5+W367mGk9vpl6 XRCbj1c0agDhi9FWptH/BcnAFV0JMnhC0v8mtgnmgdD6AoO/lwsswjZysWOJ+ooZ vZmQqk1GzK486Mb2evjgcapZfgCZx6ObRhEXa6VYfjyOz3P19syqFrfMtL+x6hQ= =7Jy7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Wed Feb 18 2015 - 22:22:06 UTC
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