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Article #1855Re: Why does more(1) not leave an exit status?
From: Felix Lee
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 1990 23:02
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 1990 23:02
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If more(1) or less(1) were to produce a different exit status for each different type of exit action, you could build intelligent wrappers around your pager. 0 - normal exit (falling off the bottom) 1 - quit (q) 2 - next file (:n) 3 - previous file (:p) (and various error exits) And then something like "zmore" would be able to deal with multiple files properly. And you might rewrite "rn" to allow using an external pager, rather than its baroque internal version. -- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu
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