On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > I already made an alias to less to use less -q. That works if I use > > less manually but just not in man. > > > > I'll try what Greg said above. > > If you set PAGER='less -q' that will work. > Why is it that the alias won't be picked up by man? It seems that man spawns a pager process in order to allow viewing of the formatted man page:
5904 pts/1 S+ 0:00 man man 5914 pts/1 S+ 0:00 pager -s What I don't understand is how if /usr/bin/pager is a symlink to /usr/bin/less, then how will the alias not be used? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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