Oh hmm I was slightly mistaken; G did actually exit more before,
so only the behaviour of F ^C has changed.
Thanks for pointing out -E, that changes behaviour of both G and
F^C (which I can quite imagine some people won't want) but I am happy
to set that in MORE for myself.
On 2011/10/06 13:51, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> Does this restore the old behaviour?
>
> I don't remember why -E was left out... Alexandr?
>
>
> Index: main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/less/main.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -u -p -r1.11 main.c
> --- main.c 16 Sep 2011 18:12:09 -0000 1.11
> +++ main.c 6 Oct 2011 12:50:24 -0000
> @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ main(argc, argv)
> init_prompt();
>
> if (less_is_more) {
> + scan_option("-E");
> scan_option("-G");
> scan_option("-L");
> scan_option("-X");
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:07:30AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > With the old version of less, when called as either "more" or "less",
> > if you press either G or F ^C, you would be left at a prompt at the end
> > of the file.
> >
> > In the updated version these differ; called as "less" this works fine,
> > but as "more" it exits.
> >
> > Not sure if this is intentional but I'm finding it quite annoying as
> > I find it a lot easier to type "more" than "less"..
