[ale] less is really less ?

[Jeff Lightner]

Use vim -n - that way it won't create the swap file.

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Michael Still
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:38 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] less is really less ?

I use vi -R or view on my log files.  Gives me vi, but in read only
mode.


On 7/11/07, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I informed some users at work to use 'less' instead 'vi' when they
view
> logs. One came back saying 'less' couldn't do it for him, since click
to
> select won't follow a wrapped long word even if the word stays in one
line
> (although wrapped to several lines on the screen).  vi did it just
fine from
> the same shell session. Same results for Putty and rxvt  by Cygwin.
>
> RTFM told me to try '-A' switch. tried to no avail. Any idea?
>
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