[ale] less is really less ?

[Jerry Yu]

thx, Jeff, pointing me to look at VI again.  'vim -Mn' is what I need, since
the user needs read-only access.  The log is already written on a remote
syslogd server based on SELS 9.

Originally, I wanted to avoid vim.  Problem was that 'less'  fails to
click-to-select a several-line-long word, while vim does it just fine. I was
hoping for something like 'switch to this that TERM type', or 'add this that
magic sequence to your TERMCAP' file or 'use this that switch for less'.





On 7/11/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>
> Use vim -n - that way it won't create the swap file.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> 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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