Re: [TUHS] PWB contributions

Doug McIlroy scripsit: I disagree entirely: it's a matter of how you see less. For me it is roughly comparable to ed (and indeed the primary documentation is about the same size). Both have the function of letting you inspect, in ways not predictable in advance, the contents of a file. Ed also allows you to modify the file, whereas less has a more convenient interface for dealing with pipeline output, and has single-keystroke convenience commands, notably space. (IWBNI ed had a switch to make it read stdin into the buffer and then read commands from /dev/tty. Obviously a wrapper script could achieve this easily.) Disclaimer: I actually use ex, not ed: I'm willing to trade off a litttle less standardosity for a little more convenience. That also of a minimal subset of vi commands when dealing with code that contains highly repetitive strings, notably Lisp parentheses. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org "Repeat this until 'update-mounts -v' shows no updates. You may well have to log in to particular machines, hunt down people who still have processes running, and kill them."