Thanks, your excellent answer prompted me to actually read the less man page :) Lots of usful stuff. One question. On 4.11, at least no meaning is suggested for MM (rather than M). Is this a typo or an undocumented feature?
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
