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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Pg vs. Less (Re: Sun vs. 3B2 (was: Ksh availability?))
Message-ID: <5313@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 18:06:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  7 18:06:56 1987
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References: <6615@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1957@killer.UUCP> <3046@psuvax1.psu.edu> <1831@ho95e.ATT.COM>
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As quoted from <1831@ho95e.ATT.COM> by wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart):
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| In article <1957@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
| >"pg" is sorry compared to "less".
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I have already commented on this.  I just want to add one thing:

Everyone seems impressed that "less" will "scroll backward".  I found this so
obnoxious (and NOT because I was on a slow terminal!) that I went back to
using "more".  I plan on reimplementing "pg" in the public domain, fixing
a few things that I consider bugs (for example, it switches to -icanon mode
after displaying the prompt and switches back to icanon after getting the
command, which has, shall we say, "unpleasant" effects on typeahead).

On the other hand, "less" is perfect for people who enjoy "vi".  (I prefer
emacs, personally, but I don't get into religious wars about it because I
can understand how forbidding emacs can look to others.  Especially since
I'm now having to virtually relearn Emacs in order to un-learn Jove and learn
Gnu instead....)  It presents a user interface that is similar to vi without
its overhead.
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