[ale] less is really less ?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 12:55:32 EDT 2007


How about 'most'
(http://debaday.debian.net/2007/04/20/most-an-alternative-and-powerful-pager-program/)?

On 7/11/07, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I informed some users at work to use 'less' instead 'vi' when they view
> logs. One came back saying 'less' couldn't do it for him, since click to
> select won't follow a wrapped long word even if the word stays in one line
> (although wrapped to several lines on the screen).  vi did it just fine from
> the same shell session. Same results for Putty and rxvt  by Cygwin.
>
> RTFM told me to try '-A' switch. tried to no avail. Any idea?
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