From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 13:00:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FFB16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:00:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E52243D5A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:00:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id j2FD0Vsh019110 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:00:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) (authenticated bits=0)j2FD0SFi001155; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:00:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9a59e9089e0ba18e22d7a0f4ffde466a@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:00:27 -0500 To: Adam Michalak X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions regarding $PAGER X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:00:32 -0000 On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Adam Michalak wrote: > I have a few questions regarding the pagers more and less. > If I type "man more" at the prompt i get the man page for less > are more and less now considered interchangeable? FreeBSD might actually ship with less configured to replace more. > When I do view a file with more my percentage of the file > viewed is displayed in the bottom right hand screen. > > However when I view a manpage the number of bytes viewed > as opposed to percentage is displayed at the bottom right > hand of the screen. How can i set this so that percentage is > displayed by default? Consider adding something like this to your shell startup: LESS='-cdegiMMs -h20 -j4' export LESS [ If you use tcsh, use setenv instead. ] -- -Chuck