X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 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 Message-ID: <4FB1A18B.7030102@laposte.net> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 02:21:31 +0200 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 AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less" References: <4FACCED0 DOT 709 AT gmail DOT com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E8CB938 AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> <4FAD3D03 DOT 8000304 AT cygwin DOT com> <4FADB80C DOT 1060808 AT laposte DOT net> <20120512105756 DOT GN13090 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20120512105756.GN13090@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q4F0M2FB005477 Le 12/05/2012 12:57, Corinna Vinschen a écrit : > 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 well, and then ?! http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fmost => Found 0 matches for /usr/bin/most however, someone have made it available somewhere Cyrille AT pcvista /home/Cyrille v2$ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 pcvista 1.7.14(0.260/5/3) 2012-04-25 09:41 i686 Cygwin Cyrille AT pcvista /home/Cyrille v2$ most --help MOST version 5.0.0 (S-Lang version 2.2.4) *Note: This executable was compiled against S-Lang 2.2.2 Usage: most [-1Cbcdkstvw] [+/string] [+line number] [+s] [+d] file... where: -1: assume VT100 terminal. (VMS only) -b: Startup in binary mode. -C: disable color support -c: Make searches case sensitive. -d: Do not display the \ wrap marker when wrapping lines. -M: Do not attempt to mmap files. -s: Squeeze out excess blank lines. -t: Display tabs as ^I. If this option is immediately followed by an integer, the integer sets the tab width. -u: Disable UTF-8 mode -v: Do not interpret backspace formatting characters. -w: Wrap lines. -z: No gunzip-on-the-fly. +/string: Search for string +line number Start up at specified line number. +d: Allow file deletion. +s: Secure Mode-- no edit, cd, shell, and reading files not already listed on the command line. +u: Enable UTF-8 mode. Example: most -ct4 +82 keymap.c makes searches case sensitive, sets tabwidth to 4, and displays the file keymap.c starting at line 82. hopefully it will make it available for everyone :-) Regards, Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:Cyrille DOT Lefevre-lists AT laposte DOT 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