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tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Less vs More, what's your poison?

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Less vs More, what's your poison?

tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • catloaf ( catloaf@lemm.ee ) 
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    I don’t know why anyone would use more when less is more with more features.

  • SpicySquid ( SpicySquid@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Less, but actually bat

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

      • msherburn33 ( msherburn33@lemmy.ml ) 
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        I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

        $ cat ~/.config/bat/config
        --wrap=never
        
        • timroerstroem ( timroerstroem@feddit.dk ) 
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          $ cat ~/.config/bat/config

          The irony.

        • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
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          I ain’t got no time for no config! I’m a busy man!

        • Jerkface (any/all) ( jerkface@lemmy.ca ) 
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          Removed by mod

  • deadcatbounce ( deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ) 
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    bat.

  • hallettj ( hallettj@leminal.space ) 
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    I’m not sure if I’ve used more in the last 25 years. And when I did I think it was in MS-DOS.

  • MonkderVierte ( MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 
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    LESSOPEN='| highlight --line-numbers -qs candy --out-format=xterm256 --stdout -i %s'

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      is that an alias or a sys env?

      • MonkderVierte ( MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Sys env. It adds syntax highlighting to less. Needs the highlight tool of course, there are others.

        • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
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          oh, it literally pipes into another tool! I thought that vertical bar was a config option for less lmao

          • MonkderVierte ( MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 
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            Yeah, less is weird there with needing the pipe.

  • setVeryLoud(true); ( isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Less is more!

  • zagaberoo ( zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) 
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    I like that more behaves like cat when there’s less than a page of output rather than requiring you to press q to get back to the prompt even when it would just fit.

    There’s probably a way to make less do that too, but more already does it without configuration. Overall I use less most of the time but I like having the option.

  • The Bard in Green ( thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ) 
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    tail -f of vim

  • Ulrich ( Ulrich@feddit.org ) 
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    Could you be more cryptic?

    • HeerlijkeDrop ( HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org ) 
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      Those are two pager programs on Linux. less has more features than more and that’s what most people use.

      • Ulrich ( Ulrich@feddit.org ) 
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        What’s a pager program?

        • Laser ( Laser@feddit.org ) 
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          Allows you to scroll through / view a text file in the terminal.

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      Yes, back in days of yore when the cyberbunnies had to run their lines through the bare wastes of the great Dave’s router, there existed a tool so coveted by the eunuchs that they named it twice, and would beg for degrees of release depending on how gimped up they were. “More” some would scream, “less” others would whisper.

    • MonkderVierte ( MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 
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      RTFM.

  • ABetterTomorrow ( ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ) 
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    Depends…

    • thingsiplay ( thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 
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      Always true. But on what depends it?

  • Jeena ( jeena@piefed.jeena.net ) 
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    I thought Less is More?

    But because it comes first that is what I usually use.

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      I use less always, and am genuinely puzzled by people who use more

      • petey ( petey@aussie.zone ) 
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        Old habits die hard? I used to administer old SunOS machines that didn’t have less (and would take considerable effort to install on all of the machines) so these days I just alias more to less

  • PoisonedPrisonPanda ( PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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    Isn’t more like the main driver for our prospering civilization?

    Some might say that the shift in desiring less is the downward path for the over-saturated humanity.

    But lets not get too deep here.

  • simonced ( simonced@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I use more because I learned more first. Now it’s in muscle memory, so I won’t change anytime soon.

  • AndyRTR ( AndyRTR@lemmy.ml ) 
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    alias less=‘moar’

  • ferric_carcinization ( ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Neither, bat or neovim.

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