From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:27:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88839FF5-A964-40AD-AACB-B5424262D436@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200615025559.GK29495@mcvoy.com>
No one is beating you up for your opinion. One should be able to
express alternate points of view without being made to look bad.
But let us face it, less is not only more, it is far too much :-) Less
gone wild.
@ Fortune Yost had added page mode as a line discipline. That
would've avoided the temptation to turn less into a mini editor.
> On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:55 PM, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> I believe that was my statement, not Dougs, and I stand behind it.
> Less was a huge improvement. If you want me to dig out why I will
> but I don't want to because it will make you look bad, that is not
> my goal.
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:41:27PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> less(1) was actually an improvement
>>>
>>> Hmm. Less is my favorite whipping boy for featuritis.
>>>
>>> % less --help |wc
>>> 242 1331 12202
>>
>> % wc p.c
>> 90 219 1504 p.c
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-15 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-15 2:26 Doug McIlroy
2020-06-15 2:41 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-15 2:55 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-15 4:26 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 4:27 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2020-06-15 4:38 ` George Michaelson
2020-06-15 7:40 ` Ed Carp
2020-06-15 8:17 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 7:12 ` Thomas Paulsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-15 20:25 Norman Wilson
2020-06-15 21:36 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 22:55 ` Henry Bent
2020-06-14 22:52 [TUHS] Fwd: " Warren Toomey
2020-06-14 23:37 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-14 23:52 ` [TUHS] " David Barto
2020-06-15 0:06 ` George Michaelson
2020-06-15 0:31 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 0:35 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 1:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-06-15 1:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-15 2:38 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:46 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:26 ` Charles H. Sauer
2020-06-15 14:03 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 20:19 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-15 20:50 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 5:41 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-15 13:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 14:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-21 18:49 ` Michael Siegel
2020-06-22 0:35 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-22 16:24 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-06-22 21:33 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-22 21:59 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2020-06-22 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-06-25 1:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-06-25 21:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-07-05 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
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