From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 7:57:40 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 07:57:38 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from groggy.anc.acsalaska.net (groggy.anc.acsalaska.net [198.70.228.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4476737B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from def@localhost) by groggy.anc.acsalaska.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA15853 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:57:33 GMT (envelope-from def1@iname.com) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:57:33 GMT From: def1@iname.com Message-Id: <200101051557.PAA15853@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net> X-Authentication-Warning: groggy.anc.acsalaska.net: def set sender to def1@iname.com using -f Subject: more stuff X-Mailer: Umail v1.7 (FreeBSD) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG a pager is kind of an important utility in an OS, and the "more" utility bundled with FBSD seems to be lacking in some fundamental and critical ways: 1. a pathname longer than 79 chars causes "more" to keep the top lines of a file scrolled off the top of the screen cuz the pathname takes more than one line at the bottom of the screen. the pathname should either: a) be truncated to 1 line, or b) "more"'s internal representation of the screen should be decreased by the appropriate number of lines. "more" as is is basically useless if a pathname is over 79 chars. 2. "more"'s search algorithm is way way slow. it takes forever to search for a string in a file of any length. what takes grep a second takes more 5-10 minutes or more. 3. it would be nice if "more"'s "View" function could make use of standard mailcap, instead of only relying on the EDITOR env variable, so if "*.html" was currently displayed, lynx could be launched or something. just some stuff that's kinda been annoying for a few years. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message