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less is more? Is more less? I'm so confused

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Mar 15, 202630105 views
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When I first heard their names, I got really confused when I tried to guess what these tools might do, I thought I'd misheard something. What's the difference between and , i.e. why should I choose one over the other? They both seem to do the same thing... Also, why are they named like that in the first place?

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is a basic pager, which allows you to scroll downwards, one page at a time. Only downwards. is also a pager, but has addition functionality to scroll upwards and downwards through the input, in addition to several other extensions. So, yes. is more, and is less. Another common idiom (according to the wiki entry) is " is , more or less." The name comes from the fact that the author (Mark Nudelman) essentially wanted a program that was "backwards more" -- The opposite of more, is .

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