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tetris11 @lemmy.ml

3d ago

Less vs More, what's your poison?

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alias less='moar'

Less, then "vim -" after I realize I don't know how to use less.

Less is more!

I use more because I learned more first. Now it's in muscle memory, so I won't change anytime soon.

bat.

It's said that less is more but I more or less use less more than more.
- I both understood that sentence perfectly and sounded like a crazy person while reading it out loud.
- This would fit in perfectly in Dr Suess' Hop on pop

Been using Less for so long...
Forgot More existed. 🤷‍♂️

I don't know why anyone would use more when less is more with more features.

Less, but actually bat
- I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?
  
  I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?
  
  $ cat ~/.config/bat/config --wrap=never

alias more=less
- Godless heathen here.
  
  At least I use bash!
  
  Yes?

LESSOPEN='| highlight --line-numbers -qs candy --out-format=xterm256 --stdout -i %s'
- is that an alias or a sys env?
  
  Sys env. It adds syntax highlighting to less. Needs the highlight tool of course, there are others.

I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.
- your buffer size must exceed several floppies!

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.

"less". If its a small file i use cat. If i want the top I use "head" or "tail' for the bottom. For a specific string i use "grep"
- I feel like more punctuation was called for here. /s

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.

tail -f of vim

Neither, bat or neovim.

less or bat, but I usually use by paging up and down so it's not that different from more... My terminal emulator only pages up and down, I like it that way.

more only if less is not available

Most!

I thought Less is More?
But because it comes first that is what I usually use.
- I use less always, and am genuinely puzzled by people who use more
  
  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

Depends…

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.

More

Could you be more cryptic?
- Those are two pager programs on Linux. less has more features than more and that's what most people use.
  
  What's a pager program?
- RTFM.
- 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.

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