Author: Dennis Kibbe Date: Subject: "less" annoyance, filters html source
On Thursday 05 December 2002 09:44 pm, you wrote: > Why would they CHANGE the meaning of a popular
> command?
Well, you could look it it this way. Since there is a dialog box (in Debian)
during the install explaining the issue and asking YOU to make a choice THEY
haven't done anything. You have full control how you want "less" to work.
I can see your point. In the UNIX tradition there should be a different tool
to do what you want. Of course, if this were Windows we'd have one HUGE tool
(I bet some spambot filters on "HUGE tool" :-)) that would edit everything,
in closed binary format and using a virus-prone macro to boot. Humm, sounds
like. . . WORD. <g>