discuss: man pages
Subject:
Re: man pages
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
18 May 2003 01:08:11 -0000
Message-Id: <20030518010817.GA334@lafn.org>
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:25:36PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
[snip]
> Odd, here's my version:
>
> Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows
> backward movement in the file as well as forward movement.
But more has backward movement too using the b key. Twenty years ago it
could move only forward. My man page implies that 22b will move back 22
lines with a default of 1 line, but I typed b and it scrolled back a
full screenfull.
[snip]
David Lawyer
