On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 15:14:20 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 15:48:07 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Exporting MORE set to some unknown option (I did MORE=-q) leads to > > > more complaining and refusing service (so it seems to behave as if > > > one passed that option directly in the command line). > > > > D'oh! > > > > What a disaster. OK, now I have a better understanding of why people > > are complaining so vocally about this change. > > > > I still think that *conditionally* exporting MORE=-e (after performing > > whatever version-number-checking backflips are needed) is going to be > > a better solution than changing individual aliases one by one. > > Hasn't the whole linus/unix world moved to using less instead or more?
This isn't about what "the whole world" uses. There are people who want to use more(1), because it better fits their needs, or for any other reason. Just as I use fvwm instead of a Desktop Environment, regardless of what other people may prefer, the OP of this thread is free to use more instead of less as their pager.
