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 1S0gKT-0000dd-Mq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:35:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B141E0BA4; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDA8E0F57 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so2267089lah.40 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:58 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of paul.hartman@gmail.com designates 10.152.125.20 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.152.125.20; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of paul.hartman@gmail.com designates 10.152.125.20 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=paul.hartman@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.152.125.20]) by 10.152.125.20 with SMTP id mm20mr2605146lab.6.1330032778316 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VKzvqXlao/uJni8qD8xk42DOXvd7ATBoxS6jibDrE94=; b=SQ/d92GyIYopv3ESgvpWR1gHgn8zRToChD6O4/UxB7b/ER/lnXgMfqHlc8Qfn5bge+ JRni0hB45m+cy4A5ovdzlkqfQkZimARsZqnzi/3Bu48jDPSB0NFPBM+TXvUvifz39xx3 /ZcrpzdRxsJCo6Jf7peWheBcsIvR8M0qCI+zk= Received: by 10.152.125.20 with SMTP id mm20mr2199845lab.6.1330032778238; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:58 -0800 (PST) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.27.131 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120223204200.GE2834@acm.acm> References: <20120223204200.GE2834@acm.acm> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:32:38 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 840gJYe5gOslTspjJ9L8Dd-rBSo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dog - man's best friend. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5bd20e99-8129-4795-a728-b0e3e30db69a X-Archives-Hash: 282eca23fee03e92c20b707e82545312 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 any > 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) using > cat etc., and have the interesting part scroll away. You should just alias less to "less -E", it does exactly what you invented.= :)