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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less"
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 10:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120512105756.GN13090@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FADB80C.1060808@laposte.net>

On May 12 03:08, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> Le 11/05/2012 18:23, Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit :
> >On 5/11/2012 9:35 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> >>Noel Grandin sent the following at Friday, May 11, 2012 4:33 AM
> >>>It seems that pretty much all unixes alias "more" to "less" these days.
> >>>It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin.
> >>>
> >>>Would save me from constantly wondering why nothing is happening when I
> >>>type "more ...." on a newly installed box :-)
> >>
> >>more.exe is supplied by the util-linux package.
> >
> >And as is true of the traditional 'more', it can do less than 'less'. ;-)
> >
> 
> from http://www.slackbook.org/html/file-commands-pagers.html
> 
> about less :
> 
> "less is more, but more more than more is, so more is less less, so
> use more less if you want less more."
> 
> about most :
> 
> "If less is more than more, most is more than less."
> 
> unfortunatelly, most doesn't exist yet under cygwin :-(

http://cygwin.com/setup.html


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-12 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11  8:33 Noel Grandin
2012-05-11 13:36 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-05-11 16:24   ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-05-12  1:09     ` Cyrille Lefevre
2012-05-12 10:58       ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2012-05-15  0:21         ` Cyrille Lefevre
2012-05-15  0:24           ` Cyrille Lefevre
2012-05-15 15:39 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-05-15 17:07   ` David Sastre Medina
2012-05-15 17:28   ` Christopher Faylor
2012-05-15 17:54     ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-05-15 19:54       ` Christopher Faylor
2012-05-15 23:58         ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-05-17 23:15           ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-05-17 23:23             ` Christopher Faylor
2012-05-18  0:50               ` Andrew DeFaria

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