[TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager

[Bakul Shah]

No one is beating you up for your opinion. One should be able to 
express alternate points of view without being made to look bad.
But let us face it, less is not only more, it is far too much :-) Less
gone wild.

@ Fortune Yost had added page mode as a line discipline. That
would've avoided the temptation to turn less into a mini editor.

> On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:55 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe that was my statement, not Dougs, and I stand behind it.
> Less was a huge improvement.  If you want me to dig out why I will
> but I don't want to because it will make you look bad, that is not
> my goal.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:41:27PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> less(1) was actually an improvement
>>> 
>>> Hmm. Less is my favorite whipping boy for featuritis.
>>> 
>>> % less --help |wc
>>>   242    1331   12202
>> 
>> % wc p.c
>>     90     219    1504 p.c
> 
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