From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
Dario Rodriguez <soft.d4rio@gmail.com>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Fix for default pager
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:29:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo4ohcsgdu.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinAO5empFix9W_rbtU3Vv4O73OsJBtA1stb66DS@mail.gmail.com> (Tor Arntsen's message of "Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:08:49 +0200")
Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> writes:
> AIX doesn't come with 'less', because it doesn't really need one.
> 'more' on AIX can page backwards/forwards in piped data (unlike 'more'
> on Linux etc.), thus negating the most common need for installing
> 'less' elsewhere.
Less has about a zillion features that more [traditionally] doesn't
have, and even some of the more esoteric ones can be quite useful for
git. For instance you can determine in a great deal of detail exactly
how/when/if it clears the screen/shows a prompt/waits for user input
before exiting, etc.
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-09 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Installing on AIX fails>
2010-06-07 23:58 ` [PATCH/RFC] Fix for default pager Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-08 0:04 ` Ben Walton
2010-06-08 2:14 ` Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-08 5:35 ` Jeff King
2010-06-08 13:49 ` Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-08 14:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-08 14:39 ` Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-08 15:56 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-08 17:28 ` Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-08 18:59 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-08 20:44 ` Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-08 21:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-06-09 9:08 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-06-09 9:29 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-06-10 8:29 ` Jeff King
2010-06-10 8:48 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-06-10 8:59 ` Jeff King
2010-06-10 9:24 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-06-10 11:31 ` Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-10 14:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-15 16:11 ` Brandon Casey
2010-06-15 16:32 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-06-16 1:34 ` Nazri Ramliy
2010-06-16 6:28 ` Jeff King
2010-06-09 18:57 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-08 5:29 ` Jeff King
2010-06-08 6:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-08 12:24 ` Dario Rodriguez
2010-06-08 14:04 ` Erik Faye-Lund
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