On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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?
more and less don't behave quite the same though; I always set $PAGER to less explicitly in ~/.cshrc (albeit with some extra options) because as more, getting to the bottom of a file quits, where less requires 'q' to exit - handy if, say, running '!man something' from inside less .. Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
