Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 21:05 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
Because he's a newbie, and the last thing I want to do is confuse him.
I started to use less from the very first day I had to use a linux system, a telnet session from a windows machine. Or the second day.
The command 'more' is very awkward for a windows user, with the strange pseudo cursor keys to move around.
Except that "less" is not universal. While it is found on MANY Linux machines, it is hardly standard in most of the *nix world.
When dealing with newbies, I always teach the most widely used solution for anything, so that if the user finds himself on a different system, he's aware of what is most likely to be found.
I don't.
If I show them newbies (coming from windows) at the start such backward tools as 'more', they will hate linux and run for their lives.
This is linux, not unix. I'm not interested in unix. Unix is dead :-P
What I show them first is 'mc'.
I can go with that. But teaching the use of "less" before "more" or to use "dog" before "cat" (if someone doesn't even know about the cat command, the name dog seems to be unnecessarily arbitrary and confusing). That doesn't man "use more for 3 years, and then let them know about less".... just long enough for them to see its deficiencies (like a couple days)...and THEN teach them about less.
Once they know how to move around, I teach them how to exit from 'vi' without pressing the reset key :-p
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