Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:51:52 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, pj@smo.de Subject: Re: Problems with man and less/more Message-ID: <20061114185152.GA43923@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <200611141803.kAEI3ODW046981@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <4559FAD5.2010806@smo.de> <200611141803.kAEI3ODW046981@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:03:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Just set $PAGER appropriately. By the way, the default > (if not set) is "more -s", which is the same as "less -s". > Therefore, piping output from man(1) through less(1) > doesn't really make sense. Maybe this should be done by the default in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc for people who don't override it? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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