Thank you Joost, for spelling out what I thought and felt. The one thing that remains for me to say is that I didn't want to object against less as the default pager. I just wanted to point out that more is a UNIX power tool, and that it does make sense to have more but not less on a system.
However, it is not a bug that you can't scroll back in man pages with more. The reason is, that man feeds the formatted man page with a pipe (another power facility of the shell) in more, and pipe can't be seeked randomly but only in a sequence. To see the difference, one may try: $ more <filename> # right, you have random access and $ cat <filename> | more # suboptimal, you can only go forward Another point I want to stress is the importance of regular expressions, a concept that in the three operating systems mentioned by lucier is not even known. Learn regex's, and you have made a big step forward to a Linux Guru. Marcus PS: After learning awk and shell cripting, you get perl nearly for free. PPS: I removed ls from my system and have an alias "ls" -> "echo *" ;) PPPS: I also have an alias "emacs" -> "cat >" -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
