Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:01:36 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: hoek@FreeBSD.org Cc: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban), gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu (John-Mark Gurney), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/more default.morerc less.morerc macro.c most.morerc ncommand.c Makefile command.c input.c less.h lin Message-ID: <199909042001.NAA61328@burka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <19990904051709.B35895@mad> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Sep 4, 1999 05:17:09 am"
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Tim Vanderhoek writes: > On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 11:12:39PM -0700, Dima Ruban wrote: > > > > The thing is - you can get used to anything. I'm not exactly convinced that > > Agreed! > > > [I was __so__ tempted to limit my reply to those 4 lines, but.... :-] > > > we need to change commands of some program (which is more or less standard in > > UN*X) just because somebody thought that he would fell better if it would be > > different. ``more'' is not ``vi'', mind you. It's not supposed to behave > > the same. > > Um, actually, it is supposed to behave the same. See more(1). And > the 'N' command did not exist before Mark Nudleman's less was imported I believe, it did exist in BSD 4.4 (I'm not sure about 4.3). > as more. Mark Nudleman has since seen the error of his original ways. > I bet we have the only more in existence with 'N' mapped to "next file". > Irix64 more(1) has something even more confusing: 'N' mapped to "toggle > search direction". No, not the only. BSDi has it, and I'm pretty sure there are more. > > > -- > This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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