Personally, I prefer the keyboard-based scrolling that less offers over scrollbars (I like to keep my hands on the keyboard and away from the mouse as much as possible). It is possible to quickly and precisely move about by lines (j/k), half-screens (d/u), full screens (SPACE/BACKSPACE or f/b), or to the bottom/top of file (G/g). (Line number display is toggled with the -N command within less, and can be enabled at the command-line with the -N option or having an "N" in the LESS environment variable.)

But if you insist on scroll bars, how about "vim -g -R +'set number'"? (vim can be found under http://www.vim.org/ .)

Ken Pizzini

documented on: Wed 07-07-99 18:17:46