From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@ccil.org (cowan@ccil.org) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:52:06 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Less -- was Termcap vs terminfo In-Reply-To: References: <201501110520.t0B5KwvP018801@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> <1421091505.3373070.212956033.39DC72E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <26f30fee0aa9ee31687ab7e6ec169975.squirrel@www.ccil.org> > 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 Some people open all the Windows; wise wives welcome the spring by moving the Unix. --Advertisement for Unix Book Units (U.K.) (see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/unix3image.gif)