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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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  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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