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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dog - man's best friend.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:00:53
Message-Id: 20120223215836.GF2834@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dog - man's best friend. by Paul Hartman
1 Hi, Paul.
2
3 On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:37:34PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
4 > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Paul Hartman
5 > <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
7 > >> I've finally been pushed over the edge.  I simply can't stand it any
8 > >> longer.  The "it" in this case is viewing a file or process output and
9 > >> either: (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using
10 > >> cat etc., and have the interesting part scroll away.
11
12 > > You should just alias less to "less -E", it does exactly what you invented. :)
13
14 > Oops, typo, I meant -F not -E. :)
15
16 Well, that's one way of discovering new features in familiar software.
17 ;-)
18
19 Thanks!
20
21 --
22 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).