Better 'less' paging behavior

May 13, '02 11:53:25PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

The implementation of 'less' that comes with OS X by default fills the screen from the bottom. This means that the tail end of whatever you displayed last may still be visible. Very confusing!

To fix this, add

alias less 'less -c'
to your .cshrc file and the file gets written filling the screen from the top down.

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