On Wed 16 Oct 2024 at 10:38:53 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 15:14:20 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 15:48:07 +0200, [email protected] 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.
Agreed. And I'd have suggested MORE if I'd known of its existence, which I ought to have, as I use LESS (but set it through .lesskey rather than the shell). ISTR using a real more in the 1990s; nowadays I use the version that offers this grand selection of options: (Enter:next line Space:next page Q:quit R:show the rest) and doesn't hang around at the end. IOW, busybox's. Go fvwm! Cheers, David.
