Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wyse!vsi1!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!nagel From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: reimplemented feature in less Message-ID: <734@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 16:32:31 GMT References: <2800001@kailand> Reply-To: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 20 In article <2800001@kailand> pwolfe@kailand.KAI.COM writes: | |Version 73 of less (-: Why the new version number scheme, Mark? Trying to |confuse us? :-) had a feature that was eliminated in the recent posting. The |"e" option still quits the second time you reach end of file, but now if a |single file being displayed that is less than one screen length, less doesn't |exit immediately, but displays it's prompt instead. I prefered the old |action. I don't recommend using this patch for the following reason: When I installed v73 here and that *feature* was discovered, I was yelled at quite a bit because it would cause things like man pages looked at from, say, an X window on a Sun, to immediately disappear taking the window with it. So, if you use windows and less exiting takes the window with it, you will want less to always stop with -e, no matter how short the file is. -- Mark Nagel Department of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine nagel@ics.uci.edu (ARPA) When they ship styrofoam... {sdcsvax|ucbvax}!ucivax!nagel (UUCP) ...what do they pack it in?