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- From: guenther@stolaf.edu (Philip A Guenther)
- Subject: Re: vi:less::emacs:what?
- In-Reply-To: harris@chopin.cs.unc.edu's message of 3 Nov 92 16:52:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <GUENTHER.92Nov5204744@amcl7.stolaf.edu>
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- Organization: Academic Computing Center, St. Olaf College
- References: <17113@borg.cs.unc.edu> <17123@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:47:44
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- In article <17123@borg.cs.unc.edu> harris@chopin.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris) writes:
- In article <17113@borg.cs.unc.edu> harris@morisot.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris) writes:
- Others noted that less allows emacs bindings. That's good, and that's
- why I use less usually. But I _don't_ want the vi key bindings there,
- for some mailers and things I use that I'd like to use the pager with
- need the vi bindings for other things.
-
- Check out lesskey. It comes with less and allows you to define your
- own set of key bindings. The manpage tells all.
-
- I would think there would be some pager around for which the source is
- in the public domain and I could remove the extraneous key
- bindings...does GNU have a pager? Haven't heard of one, but that
- hardly means there isn't one.
-
- The source for less *is* availible. less isn't under the GPL but it
- may be public domain (anybody to confirm this?). Anyway, you can get
- the source from prep.ai.mit.edu in the /pub/gnu directory.
-
- Philip Guenther
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- guenther@stolaf.edu (Philip Guenther) | The ACC might agree with me,
- Student Sys Prog, Academic Computing Center | but with that bunch, (and me)
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