Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:00:27 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Adam Michalak <ablake@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions regarding $PAGER Message-ID: <9a59e9089e0ba18e22d7a0f4ffde466a@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <cc304ea099328845446a31b043e7786b@mac.com> References: <cc304ea099328845446a31b043e7786b@mac.com>
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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
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