[17764] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.30: man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Apr 12 18:09:07 2000
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:09:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: Kev's message of Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:26:51 -0400
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<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Kev) writes:
> I believe Linux man uses "less" by default; you can type 'q' to quit it.
>
> I personally prefer 'less' to 'more' because of this feature, but I suppose
> it does violate the principle of least suprise; it can be changed for the
> release by modifing the line begining "PAGER" in /etc/man.config...
Another option is to accept using "less" as the pager, but to
set the LESS environment varaible in $initdir/cshrc to something
which more closely mimics the behavior of "more". -E will let
less quit at the end of file (although I find -e more useful),
and -m will cause less to prompt similarly to how more prompts.
(The stock cshrc already sets the MORE environmental variable.)
-Jacob
