[TUHS] Less -- was Termcap vs terminfo

[cowan at ccil.org]

> each program small and good at its one own thing.

I don't think it's sensible to apply this dictum to editors and viewers.
We don't, for example, have separate programs for inserting text, deleting
text, replacing text, scrolling a view up, scrolling a view down, and so
on.  Less is really a sort of ed without the ability to modify its buffer.

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