Why does more(1) not leave an exit status?

[Felix Lee]

If more(1) or less(1) were to produce a different exit status for each
different type of exit action, you could build intelligent wrappers
around your pager.
  0 - normal exit (falling off the bottom)
  1 - quit (q)
  2 - next file (:n)
  3 - previous file (:p)
(and various error exits)

And then something like "zmore" would be able to deal with multiple
files properly.  And you might rewrite "rn" to allow using an external
pager, rather than its baroque internal version.
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Felix Lee	flee at cs.psu.edu