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From: chris@nrcvax.UUCP (Chris Grevstad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bm in Less ?
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Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 23:34:39 EST
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amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit) says:
>
>Less's Search mode is excruciatingly slow, compared to bm and derivatives.
>Has anyone incorporated the faster search into their less/prim.c file?
>

By 'bm' I assume you mean the Boyer-Moore grep utility.  When was the last
time instead of typing 'bm pattern *.c' you typed 'rm pattern *.c'?

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