Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:19:41 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: default pager (csh) Message-ID: <54E5AAAD.7080002@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org> References: <CACYV=-GBD5FmnsQr=KC6Wc9qZ9UAFPQgPmNyS5Jr6Vs2G7dGjA@mail.gmail.com> <54E5232F.3060409@delphij.net> <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --MSqKeAM9o1Fn3aV2kicNqeS6Ej77iEoeo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/19/15 08:16, Julian Elischer 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. >=20 > I find that behaviour infuriating >=20 > 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. Absolutely. Especially as the behaviour under tmux is to clear screen unlike when just logged into a regular session. setenv LESS -X fixes that... Matthew --MSqKeAM9o1Fn3aV2kicNqeS6Ej77iEoeo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJU5aquXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxOUYxNTRFQ0JGMTEyRTUwNTQ0RTNGMzAw MDUxM0YxMEUwQTlFNEU3AAoJEABRPxDgqeTnOhkP/Aonj/fqRbV/ne+IOibT+zTW jrmPoaDDiCdiTjFoCLT8xTc65ikcHc54yLOosvIxjUfsxdkSgLcRlyA0BW/HTLN3 +EK2XF0Ql88PUC1bn2vFeO2RH/5yWz1YV/lJCJsVbShI8nsuJw2pfVGme7T07bba 3gpPRdQ7rLsstsldCrwi3nPl6iFgP2m7tGYKUdJnSDXdbeugKvRkHEaefjvFB75B vTdSMGbQDzdkHxWK8SVgobwK9WPdkyo9cwn/4gQK8UZFdqF999OBK+pxDxSO/VL+ UWNpH1ykSYT/d/YN2+9QhJnBFJ7yRIXDLzBjc5RoFQ0+9B0esAGQhGmXIpL61Rnp dKVBZPLv1COQhCi5vFiFsLjQGydAg/+QjeLmdisYzmWXNoy9YlvM2bLVdBlMtGOb Ss9LUsRJEWYtQIhBR5095f02dZeEMKcWMCE0VoGhedDYsxuXP2kHpnOWS2t7pUjW 5/NkiNgldxJObcNab0i09qkKGkfKtx21RvuVSpeQivjyGN+uUEgKCeRKxvZ9i2jS JUnCbQYfZg1Vqqvf3k/gJePJaGbitIL+dG+UNDiuy2WV9JVlQpTVagSXzRAy4muU A4lNn+Ne84NS6SzMFmXrvNobVOt2GtBgOsrz5NCKQjomxGNznorooWELzqXtcRTB sx0YEor/VkxF2OFKmYcz =hhOf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MSqKeAM9o1Fn3aV2kicNqeS6Ej77iEoeo--
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