On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 00:12, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone still use 'more'? The only thing needed is a symlink to 'less': > http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ I do. > Are there any distros that don't provide 'less' by default? > > What value added does 'more' provide? It does not clear screen when 'q' is pressed, which is the main reason I sometime choose to use more. > I'd think development time would be > better used elsewhere. To me, 'more' was developed in the era of paper > terminals (e.g. Teletype) and it is time to retire it. I appreciate highly when someone volunteers to maintain & develop something superficially old and obsolete. Earlier one might have said that why bother to make vi better now when emacs is so great, which lead eventually to vim. Who knows how much better more might be in future in comparison to less if people who like it have change of making it such. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
