[illumos-Developer] Requesting code review for opensource /usr/xpg4/bin/more replacement with "less" ...

[Garrett D'Amore]

We don't deliver man pages via OS/Net or illumos at present.  We do need
to start doing that, and when we do, this man page should be included.
In the meantime, leave it out and file an RFE once this integrates
requesting that the less man page be added.  (The more man page would
need an update as well.)

	- Garrett

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 21:00 +0100, I. Szczesniak wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Below are the webrev(s) which integrate the "less" utility as
> > opensource replacement for /usr/xpg4/bin/more. The same webrev
> > provides the usual "less" utilities.
> >
> > The webrev come in two flavors:
> >
> > 1. "less" compiled with plain regex API:
> > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gisburn/illumos_b520_xpg4more_plainregex/
> >
> > 2. "less" compiled with an extended regex API which allows alternative
> > pattern systems to be used in searches, e.g. (?P)pattern for perl
> > pattern, (?Si)pattern for case-insensitive shell patterns etc.:
> > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gisburn/illumos_b520_xpg4more_perlregex/
> >
> > Notes:
> > - The code provides /usr/bin/less, /usr/bin/lessecho and
> > /usr/bin/lesskey and a softlink from /usr/xpg4/bin/more to
> > ../../bin/less (=/usr/bin/less) as part of the base packages
> > - "less" will switch to POSIX "more" mode when launched as "more"
> > - The code is compiled with XPG6 flags to make sure XPG[64] version of
> > matching libc calls are made (e.g. XPG4 version of |system()|) to
> > ensure POSIX conformance.
> >
> > ToDo:
> > - Make a choice which regex engine we'll use
> > - There is one issue with multibyte characters I'm currently investigating
> > - Integrate review feedback
> 
> Why is less.man not part of the package?
> 
> Except that issue the changes look good to me.
> 
> Irek
> 
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