Recent change in less(1)

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Fri Aug 10 05:57:09 PDT 2007


On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Ted Lindgreen wrote:

> [Quoting Daniel Eischen, on Aug  7, 15:41, in "Re: Recent change in ..."]
> ....
>>> If so I have a question: how to obtain the former behaviour of the -e
>>> switch, i.e. quit when EOF is hit twice always (thus whether or not
>>> when the file happens to fit on a single page)?
>>
>> Perhaps:
>>
>>  	if (less_is_more) {
>>  		no_init = TRUE;
>>  		if (get_quit_at_eof())
>>  			quit_if_one_screen = TRUE;
>>  	}
>
> Daniel, are you going to check this fix in?
>
> (Or must we live with broken "-e" functionality in future, in which
> case at least the man-page should be updated to reflect the new
> behaviour IMHO).

I don't know.  Does it work the way it is suppose to with this
patch?

-- 
DE


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