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- Monday July 14, 1986
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- I've made four changes to less:
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- 1. You can now install the pager_patch program to let you use less as
- your default pager even if the programs you're using don't pay
- attention to the PAGER environment variable.
-
- 2. It's now allowable to invoke less with "-[z]N" to specify the window
- scroll size ala more (note that the "z" may be omitted) - this
- was done for compatibility with more(1) as some programs (ex: msgs)
- called the pager with a window size specification.
-
- 3. Less will now detect "boldfacing sequences" and use the /etc/termcap
- capability "md" and "me" to boldface the corresponding text.
- Boldface sequences are sequences of a character overstruck with
- backspaces (ex: a^Hab^Hb ...). Any number of overstrikes are ok.
- For those whose nroff doesn't generate these sequences for [default]
- boldfacing, look at the file n10-diff for the necessary changes to
- nroff [n10.c].
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- 4. The manual page has been reformatted to have more boldface sequences
- (some may find my avoidance of ".B", ".I", etc. to be annoying, but
- what the hey, I'll let Mark Nudelman (less's original author) have
- the final decision). I haven't reorganized the command and switch
- descriptions to be in alphabetic order ... Still not sure whether
- that should be done ...
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- Leith (Casey) Leedom lll-crg.arpa!csustan!casey
- Computer Science Department work: (209) 667-3185
- California State University, Stanislaus home: (209) 634-2775
- Turlock, CA 95380
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