Catchup with the times:

- Avoid use of word that Americans don't know how to spell
 - Avoid use of capital letters when referring to command names
 - Bookmarks do span files
 - Use .Qq where appropriate.  I didn't use .Sq or .Dq where `' and ``''
   appear, since it's not clear to me what modern usage of those two
   macros is.
 - Say simply: ``See .Xr xxx 1'' rather than ``See the .Xr xxx 1 command''.
   This former style has undoubtedly increased in popularity due to
   html and hyperlinks, but it's always been around (esp. for manpage
   sections other than section 1).
 - Use .St
 - Dedocument use of `-' to mean that `more` should read from its
   standard input.  The modern preferred way to read from standard
   input is by specifying /dev/stdin.  This is not a prelude to changing
   more's behaviour within the short term (ie. at least 3-4 years).
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.Op Fl / Ar pattern
.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm More
is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. It
The
.Nm
command is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time.
It
uses
.Xr termcap 3
so it can run on a variety of terminals. There is even limited support
for hardcopy terminals. (On a hardcopy terminal, lines which should be
printed at the top of the screen are prefixed with an up-arrow.)
.Ar File
may be a single dash (``-''), implying stdin.
so it can run on a variety of terminals,
including hardcopy terminals.
On a hardcopy terminal, lines which should be
printed at the top of the screen are prefixed with an up-arrow.
A
.Ar file
may be specified as
.Pa /dev/stdin
to view stdin.
.Sh OPTIONS
Command line options are described below.
Options are also taken from the environment variable
@ -110,9 +116,11 @@ consecutive blank lines to be squeezed into a single blank line.
The
.Fl t
option, followed immediately by a tag, will edit the file
containing that tag. For more information, see the
containing that tag.
For more information, see
.Xr ctags 1
command.
and
.Xr gtags 1 .
.It Fl u
By default,
.Nm
@ -122,6 +130,8 @@ sequences specially. Backspaces which appear
adjacent to an underscore character are displayed as underlined text.
Backspaces which appear between two identical characters are displayed
as emboldened text.
.\" Actually, backspaces are never displayed, either higlighted or underlined,
.\" when -u isn't specified.
.Dv CR-LF
sequences are compressed to a single newline
character. The
@ -208,10 +218,11 @@ Go to line N in the file, default 1 (beginning of file).
Go to line N in the file, default the end of the file.
.It Ic p No or Ic \&%
Go to a position N percent into the file. N should be between 0
and 100. (This works if standard input is being read, but only if
and 100.
This does work if standard input is being read, but only if
.Nm
has already read to the end of the file. It is always fast, but
not always useful.)
not always useful.
.It Ic r No or Ic \&^L
Repaint the screen.
.It Ic R
@ -221,17 +232,19 @@ Useful if the file is changing while it is being viewed.
Followed by any lowercase letter,
marks the current position with that letter.
.It Ic \&'
(Single quote.)
(single quote)
Followed by any lowercase letter, returns to the position which
was previously marked with that letter.
Followed by another single quote, returns to the position at
which the last "large" movement command was executed, or the
which the last
.Qq large
movement command was executed, or the
beginning of the file if no such movements have occurred.
All marks are lost when a new file is examined.
.It Ic \&/ Ns Ar pattern
Search forward in the file for the N-th line containing the pattern.
N defaults to 1.
The pattern is a POSIX.2
The pattern is a
.St -p1003.2
.Dq extended format
regular expression, as described in
.Xr re_format 7 .
@ -255,7 +268,7 @@ containing the last pattern, if the previous search
was /! or ?!).
.It Ic E Ns Op Ar filename
Examine a new file.
If the filename is missing, the "current" file (see the N and P commands
If the filename is missing, the current file (see the N and P commands
below) from the list of files in the command line is re-examined.
If the filename is a pound sign (#), the previously examined file is
re-examined.
@ -298,18 +311,25 @@ Exits
.Nm more .
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Nm More
utilizes the following environment variables, if they exist:
The following environment variables are used,
if they exist:
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Ev MORE
This variable may be set with favored options to
Specifies default option flags to
.Nm more .
Options must be preceeded by a
.Dq -
as if they were specified on the command line.
.It Ev EDITOR
Specify default editor.
Specifies default editor.
.It Ev SHELL
Current shell in use (normally set by the shell at login time).
Specifies current shell in use.
This is normally set by the shell at login time.
.It Ev TERM
Specifies terminal type, used by more to get the terminal
Specifies terminal type.
This is used by
.Nm
to get the terminal
characteristics necessary to manipulate the screen.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
@ -327,9 +347,6 @@ underlining to be not existing.
.Pp
Sometimes searches match lines that do not contain the pattern being
searched for.
.Pp
The HOME and ARROW keys will only work if you use the correct vt100
escape sequences for them.
.Sh AUTHORS
This software is derived from software contributed to Berkeley
by