At Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:44:56 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote in
> At Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:59:09 +0100, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote in
> > The section in question was added to our docs 22 years ago, to make it reflect
> > the current operating systems in use maybe just not mentioning more(1) is the
> > easiest?:
> >
> > "The text browsing tool less can be invoked as less -x4 to make it show
> > tabs appropriately."
> >
> > Or perhaps remove that section altogether?
>
> I think the former is better.
So the attached does that.
regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
From fd833aee1756364f669a3d478763299ce6d3a747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 15:18:52 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Fix out-of-date description mentioning the command more
In most of the operating systems in use, "more" is implemented using
"less", or otherwise "more" does not have an -x option. Remove the
descriptions related to the more command to make it reflect the
current world better.
---
doc/src/sgml/sources.sgml | 9 ++-------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/sources.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/sources.sgml
index 1b77efb087..7a6e8a951f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/sources.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/sources.sgml
@@ -76,13 +76,8 @@
</para>
<para>
- The text browsing tools <application>more</application> and
- <application>less</application> can be invoked as:
-<programlisting>
-more -x4
-less -x4
-</programlisting>
- to make them show tabs appropriately.
+ The text browsing tool <application>less</application> can be invoked
+ as <quote>less -x4</quote> to make it show tabs appropriately.
</para>
</sect1>
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