On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:03:24AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> Uh, oh...
> I opened up ~/.bashrc and found:
> alias man='man -TX100
i recommend removing the line if you haven't done so already.
> So, Patrick, sorry to bother you, but I now know alot more about
> environmental variables
Uh, oh...
I opened up ~/.bashrc and found:
alias man='man -TX100
That's what was making man call gxditview (which is part of groff). I
dont remember adding that alias in there. Must have been stoned. :)
So, Patrick, sorry to bother you, but I now know alot more about
environmental varia
On 19-Aug-2000 John Bagdanoff wrote:
> When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode
> this is not nice.
>
> I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't
> found how to change it back to using less.
>
> Any ideas?
As root run "update-alternatives
in ~/.bashrc add the following line
export PAGER=less
when man is invoked it checks the value of PAGER to determine which
pager to use. i'm not familiar with gxditview, if this is giving you
problems and you really don't need this program, get rid of it.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:27:23AM -0700
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to
> -P less. read man man
Thanks Patrick
Can you tell me the verbatim commands to do the above? And do I do this as
user?
As root, I have no problems with man
try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to
-P less. read man man
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:21:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode
> this is not nice.
>
> I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks
When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode
this is not nice.
I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't
found how to change it back to using less.
Any ideas?
John
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