12 Jan
2015
12 Jan
'15
7:38 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015, at 00:20, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Sorry for veering away from Unix history, but this
pushed one of the
hottest
of my buttons. Less is the epitome of modern Unix decadence. Besides the
maddening behavior described above, why, when all screens have a scroll
bar,
should a pager do its own scrolling?
The console screen doesn't, and the one in an emulator can't be
controlled by the pager. The real question is why a pager should be
executed at all in an xterm. Except xterm has no ability to search in
scrollback, and its buffer may not be large enough for some very large
manpages.