[lug] Debian man pages
Paul E Condon
pecondon at mesanetworks.net
Tue Oct 12 20:06:00 MDT 2004
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:01:43PM +0200, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:49:42PM +0200, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:36:42PM -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > When I view a man page in Debian , The man page is viewed then I'm
> > > dropped back out to my shell. I don't have to hit "q" to quit and i cant
> > > scroll around... anyone know why this happens.
> >
> > What's the current setting for your pager? Do a
> >
> > ls -la /etc/alternatives/pager
> >
> > Does this point to /bin/less or /bin/more ?
>
> In case you need to modify this:
>
> # update-alternatives --list pager
>
> will list all available pager programs known to the Debian system.
>
> # update-alternatives --set pager /usr/bin/less
>
> will set the system wide pager to /usr/bin/less (not a bad choice).
> You need to be root to do this.
>
>
While you're checking, check out 'most'. most is an improvement on less.
It is available as a debian package.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon at mesanetworks.net
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