From: cowan@ccil.org (cowan@ccil.org)
Subject: [TUHS] Less -- was Termcap vs terminfo
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:52:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26f30fee0aa9ee31687ab7e6ec169975.squirrel@www.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYQbfDySuXHyYpsf=BZROia7VsiZDUUdAb-z5UoSQkEg-KyCA@mail.gmail.com>
> each program small and good at its one own thing.
I don't think it's sensible to apply this dictum to editors and viewers.
We don't, for example, have separate programs for inserting text, deleting
text, replacing text, scrolling a view up, scrolling a view down, and so
on. Less is really a sort of ed without the ability to modify its buffer.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-11 5:20 Doug McIlroy
2015-01-11 17:08 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-01-11 19:40 ` Brantley Coile
2015-01-11 21:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-01-11 22:10 ` Brantley Coile
2015-01-12 15:32 ` Clem Cole
2015-01-12 19:38 ` random832
2015-01-12 19:44 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-01-12 19:52 ` cowan [this message]
2015-01-12 19:53 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-01-12 20:34 ` random832
2015-01-12 21:25 ` Clem Cole
2015-01-15 4:32 ` Jacob Ritorto
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