Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?
Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 19:00:56 -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
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> >Steve Lamb wrote:
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> Gotta love people who don't know how to delete lines, eh? Geez.
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> >> 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. :)
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> > From original message: "I am wondering about way to grep or to
> >view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files."
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> From your message "yeah, but why so complicated?"
well, now i _must_ respond. that wasn´t ed´s line, but mine. should i
know wright : geez, people who couldn´t read a mail?
no, i will not.
please, please, be friendly.
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> > 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.
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> 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
let´s agree to: different people like different ways.
hafi
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