Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Éric Araujo <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Justin: what exactly is a pager that does not support man pages?

I may know the answer to this one.  A common PAGER setting is "less
-rs" which makes less skip whitespace lines and passes through
terminal control chars.  Nether of these options are needed for pydoc,
but I don't know if they cause any harm.

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