Re: default pager (csh)

From: Ian Lepore <ian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 07:54:52 -0700
On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 07:46 +0100, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> > On 19 Feb 2015, at 02:27, Davide Italiano <davide_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9_at_egr.msu.edu> wrote:
> >> The PAGER was less for about half a year and reverted.  Please see:
> >> 
> >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=242643
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> > OK, I think this ends the discussion =)
> 
> Nope, not good enough.  The way I see it we achieved nothing
> despite the fact that several bugs are on the table.
> 
> Now that we all agree more(1) is the way to go, can we please fix
> colouring and the pager quit issue for man pages using sensible
> options in more(1)?
> 
> Other's should speak up for their woes with the FreeBSD defaults
> too.  The defaults are supposed to be the best we can do.  Right
> now, we can actually do better.  :)

I sure hope "fix coloring" is shorthand for "don't you dare turn on any
of that color crap without the user's permission."

-- Ian
Received on Thu Feb 19 2015 - 14:05:13 UTC

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