reimplemented feature in less

[Mark Nagel]

In article <2800001 at kailand> pwolfe at kailand.KAI.COM writes:
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|Version 73 of less (-: Why the new version number scheme, Mark?  Trying to
|confuse us? :-) had a feature that was eliminated in the recent posting.  The
|"e" option still quits the second time you reach end of file, but now if a
|single file being displayed that is less than one screen length, less doesn't
|exit immediately, but displays it's prompt instead.  I prefered the old
|action.

I don't recommend using this patch for the following reason:  When I installed
v73 here and that *feature* was discovered, I was yelled at quite a bit
because it would cause things like man pages looked at from, say, an X
window on a Sun, to immediately disappear taking the window with it.
So, if you use windows and less exiting takes the window with it, you
will want less to always stop with -e, no matter how short the file is.
-- 
Mark Nagel
Department of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
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