This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: less is more - info
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: less is more - info
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:27:01 +0200
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <3528-Sat15Sep2001081401+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: gp at familiehaase dot de
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/