Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:10:36 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: default pager (csh) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502191806400.40355@wonkity.com> 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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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, 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. > > 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. It doesn't do that on csh. Or maybe I figured out how to prevent it long ago and forgot, but all I use is this: setenv PAGER "less -RS"
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