hi,

Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> ... Problem is, it piped the output into Less.

you mean 'less', yes ?


  Sorry, but I've been spoiled by GUIs since the late
> 1980s, and find terminal apps such as Less a bit clunky.

wondering which use of "spoiled", ie "(transitive) To ruin the character of, by
overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess", or "(transitive) To ruin; to
damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable" you had in mind ?
surely not "to become sour"..  </grin>

so, using your usual method, if you want to look at the contents of a zip file
(not extract it), what program do you use ?  or you want to look at a '.tar',
more common on GNU/Linux, perhaps compressed, again, not wanting to extract.
which program ?  if you want to read a compressed text file, say .gz or .xz,
which program do you use ?  or you want to quickly read some part of a PDF,
which program do you open ?  or, say, you are reading through some program
source (in your viewer) and spot a typo, can you edit it ?

'less' lets me do all of the above, including invoking the editor with the
cursor pretty near the "offending" bit (if it was approx centre of 'less' view).
 and all w/out a single rodent click, "hands on keyboard" ;-).


regards, jr.

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