On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 04:55:44PM +0000, kshe wrote: > Hi, > > Would a patch to bring back the `!' command to less(1) be accepted? The > commit message for its removal explains that ^Z should be used instead, > but that obviously does not work if less(1) is run from something else > than an interactive shell, for example when reading manual pages from a > vi(1) instance spawned directly by `xterm -e vi' in a window manager or > by `neww vi' in a tmux(1) session.
Why should less be able to spawn another programs? This would undermine all pledge work. IIUC your vi scenario, you are not spawing 'vi' from less but the opposite way. That should work. j.
