On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Bob Taylor wrote:
> Anyone know the secret to get less to display in its own "window" (it
> doesn't write on the xterm). As far as I can see it's not in the man
> page. This is one of the "little" things that bugs me.
>
> TIA
>
> Bob
>
>
If I understand you correctly, you would like less to open a new window,
instead of its output showing up in the xterm you typed the command on, or
you have it as a menu command in X, and it doesn't work.
If you want it to work from a menu command in X, you have to use a command
like xterm -e less [file name]. If you want it to open its own window
when giving hte command from an xterm, use something like:
xterm -e less [file name] &
Just remember, less is designed to work on the console, from the command
prompt. It is not a X program. If you want an x program that does the
same thing, you will have to do a little looking, or put something like
this as a menu entry...
xgetfile -exec "xterm -e less %s"
Mikkel
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