On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 15:09:48 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 14 Oct 2024 at 14:38:36 (-0400), Jim Anderson wrote:
> > I'm not sure why the Debian developers chose to change the behavior of
> > the 'more' command, but the Debian release 12 has the annoying habit,
> > upon reaching end of the file, of displaying extra empty lines to fill
> > a terminal window, then inserting the text:
> >
> > (END)
> >
> > at the end of file. This requires entering an unnecessary and annoying
> > carriage return to restore the window to the terminal screen prompt.
>
> I think you now need -e in a terminal:
>
> -e, --exit-on-eof
> Exit on End-Of-File, enabled by default if not executed on terminal.
>
> Perhaps alias it?
One could also set the desired option(s) in one's environment, e.g.
export MORE=-e
