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[107.215.223.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i62sm12828550pfg.90.2020.06.14.21.27.56 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:27:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Bakul Shah Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.14\)) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:27:55 -0700 References: <202006150226.05F2QLL4066364@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <8DD10EA6-2AF8-4557-BF75-8F9C65780E78@iitbombay.org> <20200615025559.GK29495@mcvoy.com> To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list In-Reply-To: <20200615025559.GK29495@mcvoy.com> Message-Id: <88839FF5-A964-40AD-AACB-B5424262D436@iitbombay.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.14) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" No one is beating you up for your opinion. One should be able to=20 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 wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:41:27PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: >> On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Doug McIlroy = wrote: >>>=20 >>>> less(1) was actually an improvement >>>=20 >>> Hmm. Less is my favorite whipping boy for featuritis. >>>=20 >>> % less --help |wc >>> 242 1331 12202 >>=20 >> % wc p.c >> 90 219 1504 p.c >=20 > --=20 > --- > Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com = http://www.mcvoy.com/lm=20