> On 19 Feb 2015, at 09:16, Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: >> >> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear >> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), >> while less(1) when running as less does. >> >> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even >> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste >> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the >> more vocal ones when it comes to a change. > > I find that behaviour infuriating > > I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as a reference, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* the info I wanted to use has gone away. Yeah, that drives me nuts too, Debian had (has?) this and it's a no-go for me. Changing options for man would be nice though, so finding something near the end of the page won't exit the pager.Received on Thu Feb 19 2015 - 08:27:40 UTC
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