Micha Feigin wrote: > Scrolling depends on several things and off course you can scroll back > using the console with more and cat if you configure it to save enough > lines and scroll both ways with less and most but its not as powerful > as a full editor.
First off we were talking about pagers. Cat is not a pager. That leaves
more and less as pagers in your list. Secondly even if we took only those two
that would mean one is quite good and one isn't. Considering less is pretty
much the de facto standard pager on most unices these days we can reasonibly
compare less to editors. There are others but I do not know them off the top
of my head.
> Searching does work but usually not as good and more cumbersome.
Why do you say that. Let's compare my favorite editor to less. Regex and
Regex. Both use / to start searching forward and both are capable of
searching backwards (not that I know that as I rarely reverse search).
> Syntax highlighting (at least full syntax highlighting), you certainly
> don't have.
Which would be the one.
> And last if its no trouble with customizable indentation then you no
> longer have any claim against tabs.
Quite the contrary it is because they're configurable that there is a
problem. Same as in an editor. What you have configured and what I have
configured may be different.
> BTW if you have problems with my indentation you can always do (in a
> proper programming editor) select all and re-indent (not with python
> according to what people said here which is exactly what I have against
> using syntax for figuring context, beside the fact that it sounds very
> error prone in that respect, I prefer the {} method.
Really. Tell me, what happens when I do that, make some changes and do
any of these:
a: submit a patch.
b: check into cvs.
Oh, yeah, that pesky working with other people problem.
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