[Toybox] [PATCH] Fix more to a non-tty.

[enh]

yeah, i'm pretty sure 100% of our more(1) users are using because we
don't have less. the sad part is that Android might be creating more
more(1) users because we're retraining their muscle memory :-)

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:04 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccunney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 5:40 PM, enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>>> On 04/21/2016 07:42 PM, enh wrote:
>>
>> having more(1) be the simplest possible thing probably best matches
>> the intentions of anyone who deliberately chooses more(1) over less(1)
>> anyway.
>
> What I don't understand is why anyone would.  I don't think I've used
> more(1) in at least two decades, and possibly three.  As soon as I
> discovered less, I clutched it to my chest and didn't let go.  (I
> *did* use pg a bit under SysV in places I didn't have/couldn't install
> less.)  I use ports of less under MSDOS and Windows, too.
>
> I suppose there are some scripts out there coded to call more.  For
> those cases, I'd be tempted to symlink less to more, because
> http://linux.die.net/man/1/less
>
> "Compatibility with More
>
> If the environment variable LESS_IS_MORE is set to 1, or if the
> program is invoked via a file link named "more", less behaves (mostly)
> in conformance with the POSIX "more" command specification. In this
> mode, less behaves differently in these ways:
>
> The -e option works differently. If the -e option is not set, less
> behaves as if the -E option were set. If the -e option is set, less
> behaves as if the -e and -F options were set.
>
> The -m option works differently. If the -m option is not set, the
> medium prompt is used, and it is prefixed with the string "--More--".
> If the -m option is set, the short prompt is used.
>
> The -n option acts like the -z option. The normal behavior of the -n
> option is unavailable in this mode.
>
> The parameter to the -p option is taken to be a less command rather
> than a search pattern.
>
> The LESS environment variable is ignored, and the MORE environment
> variable is used in its place."
>
> and see whether anyone even *noticed*.
>
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