Re: [PATCH/RFC] Fix for default pager
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
- Date
- Jun 9, 2010, 09:29 UTC
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- <AANLkTinAO5empFix9W_rbtU3Vv4O73OsJBtA1stb66DS@mail.gmail.com>
Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> writes:
> AIX doesn't come with 'less', because it doesn't really need one. > 'more' on AIX can page backwards/forwards in piped data (unlike 'more' > on Linux etc.), thus negating the most common need for installing > 'less' elsewhere.
Less has about a zillion features that more [traditionally] doesn't have, and even some of the more esoteric ones can be quite useful for git. For instance you can determine in a great deal of detail exactly how/when/if it clears the screen/shows a prompt/waits for user input before exiting, etc.
-Miles
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