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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Sun vs. 3B2 (was: Ksh availability?)
Message-ID: <5192@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 21:19:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 21:19:10 1987
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References: <6615@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1957@killer.UUCP>
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As quoted from <1957@killer.UUCP> by elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green):
+---------------
| "pg" is sorry compared to "less". "less" scrolls both forward and backward,
| and you don't have to always be hitting return (the space bar is under my
| thumb, fer cryin' out loud, why should I have to reach WAYYY over with my
| little finger to hit the RETURN key?). I don't know if you've used "jove", but
+---------------

pg -- You lose.  It scrolls backwards, it scrolls pipes in both directions
(at least, it seemed to; I get the impression it buffers pipe data into a
file and seeks on that).  And try from ksh "alias pg='pg -n -s'"; this results
in both a reverse-video prompt and the ability to hit space instead of return.
I admit having -s be the default would be nicer, though... but less tries a
bit too hard to look like vi (those damned ~'s, etc.).  I know you can use all
sorts of options to make less behave in a different manner, but I was sick of
it after a week.  (Yes, I know about $LESS.)

Hmmm.... this is turning into Pager-and-Editor Wars, Round 1,779,561.  Let's
just drop the issue, hmmm?  (Naw... this is the Usenet!  ;-)
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery		     necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu
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