Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:20:33 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Morten Seeberg <morten@seeberg.dk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more showing characters instead of % Message-ID: <20000727232033.A808@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos>; from morten@seeberg.dk on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:06:55PM %2B0100 References: <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:06:55PM +0100, Morten Seeberg wrote: > Ehh a couple of us FreeBSD users are wondering why more now uses characters > instead of % when showing how far down a file you are?? > This is because more has been replaced by less. > This is in our opinion a bit wierd and problematic, because you rarely know > how long your file is, when you use more, or at least when we use more :) > > With % you always have an idea whether your file is 1k long or 20k long, if > this is the way to implement more in the future, is there an option to more, > so that I can make an alias that gives me % in more? > Yes, there is. -m (or -M) is the option you want. You can also put default options for less in the environment variable LESS so you don't need any aliases. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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