Re: default pager (csh)

From: Michael Gmelin <grembo_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:20:57 +0100
> 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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