Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?
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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 19:00:56 -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>Steve Lamb wrote:
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Gotta love people who don't know how to delete lines, eh? Geez.
>> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 22:08:34 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote:
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>> >yeah, but why so complicated?
>> >mc is just wonderful for things like that.
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>> Because mc isn't a pager. :)
> From original message: "I am wondering about way to grep or to
>view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files."
From your message "yeah, but why so complicated?"
> He never specified the solution must be a pager, but if it must
>be a pager, then 'most' can do this just as easily as 'less'
>does. MC is still my first choice, though.
zgrep foo bar.gz seems to be (z)less complicated than mc -c, going down
to the file, then <esc>3/F3 to view it, *then* do a search, in my book. Use
the tools that are there, not focus on one. :P
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