From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S0giZ-0005Y6-Sa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:00:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A7ACE0EF8; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16887E0FDB for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 43086 invoked by uid 3782); 23 Feb 2012 21:59:12 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9557DC3.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.125.195]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:59:08 +0100 Received: (qmail 5119 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Feb 2012 21:58:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:58:36 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dog - man's best friend. Message-ID: <20120223215836.GF2834@acm.acm> References: <20120223204200.GE2834@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b8443038-9459-4efa-806a-ce11efb54894 X-Archives-Hash: 0b1116a76e72d03cc69b432ad6893ae1 Hi, Paul. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:37:34PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> I've finally been pushed over the edge. =A0I simply can't stand it a= ny > >> longer. =A0The "it" in this case is viewing a file or process output= and > >> either: (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) u= sing > >> cat etc., and have the interesting part scroll away. > > You should just alias less to "less -E", it does exactly what you inv= ented. :) =20 > Oops, typo, I meant -F not -E. :) Well, that's one way of discovering new features in familiar software. ;-) Thanks! --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).