Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less"

[Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille dot lefevre-lists at laposte dot net>]

Le 12/05/2012 12:57, Corinna Vinschen a Ãcrit :
> On May 12 03:08, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > Le 11/05/2012 18:23, Larry Hall (Cygwin) a Ãcrit :
> > > 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@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@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
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