Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:27:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: less is more - info Reply-to: gp AT familiehaase DOT de Message-ID: <3BA39D75.17467.19B3A3D7@localhost> In-reply-to: <5.0.2.1.2.20010915110850.00a90fd0@lnxmain> References: <3528-Sat15Sep2001081401+0100-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) X-Hops: 1 X-Sender: 320081107336-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net 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 -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/