Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:35:13 +0530 From: Ashok TM <atmblr@gmail.com> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>, Chris Stankevitz <cstankevitz@toyon.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G Message-ID: <ef4898ff0910140405p54d55512tbbe3f1ddf16415d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091014081030.GA50437@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <4AD56B3A.4070905@toyon.com> <20091014081030.GA50437@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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send me ur citiback card no On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > > > Bill Campbell wrote: > > >The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of > > >these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit > > >at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second > > >time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time. > > > > Bill, > > > > Thank you for your explanation. I hope to find that my PAGER > > environment variable is "less -E". If so, I will drop the -E. > > > > Chris > > > > Chris, > > Set $PAGER to "less" and then set $LESS to something reasonable in > your shells rc/profile. > > E.g On my machine: > > LESS="-Xrmj3z-3 -Pm?f%f\:\ .?pb%pb\%\ :?lt%lt. .?e(END)" > > All explained in less(1) > > Regards, > > -- > > Frank > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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