Hi, On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > On Tuesday 2007 January 23 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Uhm. You do understand that we use MinGW to port to, not _plain_ > > Windows? So we do have a "less". > > Nope; I didn't. Oh dear. I've obviously misunderstood. I thought > MinGW was for compiling to native Windows? Do you use MinGW to compile > to cygwin as well? MinGW and cygwin differ in one very important point: cygwin needs an extra dll, MinGW does not. However, the development environment is still console-based, with a bash so you can run configure and simple bash scripts. It is definitely more catering to Unix types than Windows types. So yes, there is a bash, and there is a less, and there is perl. > > That was not Windows. That was DOS. > > I'm sure pipes were still awful in Win98. I accept though, that it is > possible Windows has changed in the last 9 years :-) Win98 was based on DOS. Windows XP is based on VMS. <tongue-in-cheek> Yes, I know. They left everything behind, and started Windows NT anew. Yeah, right. </tongue-in-cheek> > > With less, on the other hand, you just exit the pager, or let it > > search through stdin. It is so much more convenient. > > That sounds better than I remember. You'll have talked me into > migrating to Windows soon :-) I don't understand. The command "less" is the default pager of git, so you are prone to have used it already. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html