From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24825 invoked by alias); 12 May 2012 01:09:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 24814 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2012 01:09:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SARE_FREE_WEBM_LAPOSTE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout3.laposte.net (HELO smtpout.laposte.net) (193.253.67.228) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 May 2012 01:08:31 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.133] ([84.100.228.42]) by mwinf8505-out with ME id 8p8U1j0050vXXw403p8UwK; Sat, 12 May 2012 03:08:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4FADB80C.1060808@laposte.net> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 01:09:00 -0000 From: Cyrille Lefevre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less" References: <4FACCED0.709@gmail.com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E8CB938@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4FAD3D03.8000304@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <4FAD3D03.8000304@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00248.txt.bz2 Le 11/05/2012 18:23, Larry Hall (Cygwin) a =E9crit : > 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=20 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 :-( Regards, Cyrille Lefevre --=20 mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists@laposte.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple