Yep they seem to have actually changed the behaviour of -E, I've been
looking to see if we can restore the old behaviour but haven't got it
yet.
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 02:46:27PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Oh hmm I was slightly mistaken; G did actually exit more before,
> so only the behaviour of F ^C has changed.
>
> Thanks for pointing out -E, that changes behaviour of both G and
> F^C (which I can quite imagine some people won't want) but I am happy
> to set that in MORE for myself.
>
>
>
> On 2011/10/06 13:51, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> > Does this restore the old behaviour?
> >
> > I don't remember why -E was left out... Alexandr?
> >
> >
> > Index: main.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/less/main.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.11
> > diff -u -p -r1.11 main.c
> > --- main.c 16 Sep 2011 18:12:09 -0000 1.11
> > +++ main.c 6 Oct 2011 12:50:24 -0000
> > @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ main(argc, argv)
> > init_prompt();
> >
> > if (less_is_more) {
> > + scan_option("-E");
> > scan_option("-G");
> > scan_option("-L");
> > scan_option("-X");
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:07:30AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > With the old version of less, when called as either "more" or "less",
> > > if you press either G or F ^C, you would be left at a prompt at the end
> > > of the file.
> > >
> > > In the updated version these differ; called as "less" this works fine,
> > > but as "more" it exits.
> > >
> > > Not sure if this is intentional but I'm finding it quite annoying as
> > > I find it a lot easier to type "more" than "less"..
