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When reading a manual page with man, I can only step lines forward with
Enter or step pages with space. I suspect that 'more' is used instead of
'less', which makes it much harder to navigate in the manual documents.
I think this bug has appeared recently (after alpha 2).
The last page of man man looks like this:
SEE ALSO
apropos(1), groff(1), less(1), manpath(1), nroff(1), troff(1),
whatis(1), zsoelim(1), setlocale(3), manpath(5), ascii(7), latin1(7),
man(7), catman(8), mandb(8), the man-db package manual, FSSTND
HISTORY
1990, 1991 – Originally written by John W. Eaton (j...@che.utexas.edu).
Dec 23 1992: Rik Faith (fa...@cs.unc.edu) applied bug fixes supplied by
Willem Kasdorp (wka...@nikhefk.nikef.nl).
30th April 1994 – 23rd February 2000: Wilf. (g.wilf...@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
has been developing and maintaining this package with the help of a few
dedicated people.
30th October 1996 – 30th March 2001: Fabrizio Polacco <fpo‐
la...@debian.org> maintained and enhanced this package for the Debian
project, with the help of all the community.
31st March 2001 – present day: Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> is
now developing and maintaining man-db.
2.7.5 2015-11-06 MAN(1)
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: man-db 2.7.5-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.366
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon Feb 22 20:10:20 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha i386 (20160222)
SourcePackage: man-db
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: less (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Triaged
** Tags: apport-bug i386 iso-testing xenial
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man seems to be using primitive 'more' rather than 'less'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1548477
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