Subject: Re: less is more - info
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:27:01 +0200

Roland Glenn McIntosh schrieb am 2001-09-15, 11:11:

>David -
>I found myself aliasing more to 'less -EFX'
>as this seems to cause less to mimic more's behavior.
>For those of you who aren't going to run out and read the man page:
>
>-E or --QUIT-AT-EOF
>Causes less to automatically exit the first time it reaches end-of-file.
>
>-F or --quit-if-one-screen
>Causes less to automatically exit if the entire file can be displayed on the first screen.

If I set -E isn't -F superflous then?

>-X or --no-init
>Disables  sending  the termcap initialization and deinitialization strings to the terminal.  This is sometimes desirable if the deinitialization string
>does something unnecessary,  like  clearing the screen.

That should be the default for less...

Gerrit

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