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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 13 days ago

Less vs More, what's your poison?

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Less vs More, what's your poison?

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  • @[email protected]
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    83•13 days ago

    It’s said that less is more but I more or less use less more than more.

    • @[email protected]
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      24•13 days ago

      I both understood that sentence perfectly and sounded like a crazy person while reading it out loud.

    • @[email protected]
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      This would fit in perfectly in Dr Suess’ Hop on pop

  • LupusBlackfur
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    Been using Less for so long…

    Forgot More existed. 🤷‍♂️

  • @[email protected]
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    29•13 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    Less, but actually bat

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

      • @[email protected]
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        I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

        $ cat ~/.config/bat/config
        --wrap=never
        
        • @[email protected]
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          $ cat ~/.config/bat/config

          The irony.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          I ain’t got no time for no config! I’m a busy man!

        • Jerkface (any/all)
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          3•12 days ago

          You dropped your friggin’ > in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.

          • @[email protected]
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            Souldn’t there be two of those to append?

            Ow! ^

  • @[email protected]
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    22•13 days ago
    alias more=less
    
    • Eyedust
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      Godless heathen here.

      • @[email protected]
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        At least I use bash!

      • @[email protected]
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        Yes?

  • @[email protected]
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    “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”

    • @[email protected]
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      3•13 days ago

      I feel like more punctuation was called for here. /s

  • deadcatbounce
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    12•12 days ago

    bat.

  • hallettj
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    12•13 days ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    10•12 days ago

    LESSOPEN='| highlight --line-numbers -qs candy --out-format=xterm256 --stdout -i %s'

    • @[email protected]OP
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      is that an alias or a sys env?

      • @[email protected]
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        Sys env. It adds syntax highlighting to less. Needs the highlight tool of course, there are others.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          oh, it literally pipes into another tool! I thought that vertical bar was a config option for less lmao

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            Yeah, less is weird there with needing the pipe.

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    8•11 days ago

    Less is more!

  • 柊 つかさ
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    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.

  • Jerkface (any/all)
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    I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      your buffer size must exceed several floppies!

  • @[email protected]
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    6•11 days ago

    Less, then “vim -” after I realize I don’t know how to use less.

  • The Bard in Green
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    tail -f of vim

  • @[email protected]
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    5•13 days ago

    more only if less is not available

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