Re: getting a modern `more`

[Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 13 January 2012 22:17:41 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> That said, if you want to spend the effort to update and maintain a
>> program that duplicates functionality, than that's up to you.  I just
>> think you may want to be careful of NIH thinking.
> 
> the work was already been done, and technically speaking, one could say that 
> everything other than "more" is NIH thinking ;).  can you name a pager that is 
> older than "more" ?

No, of course not.  Please understand that I have no connection with the 
'less' project.   I don't know why it forked, but it too has been around 
  since at least 1995 and appears to pre-date Linux (and Util-Linux). 
The website goes back to 'Version 290' in 1995.

I've been working with computers since before Unix (and Linux) and know 
a little computing history.  Before 'Glass TTYs' there were paper 
terminals and I suspect 'more' was designed with those paper terminals 
in mind.  'Less' appears to have been designed with terminals such as 
the VT100 in mind.  Sometimes it's beneficial to redesign a program when 
something new comes along rather than patch an old design.

   -- Bruce