Re: More under Man
Dale Scheetz writes:
>When more runs under man, the back screen (b) function doesn't
>work. If you do a ? the help screen declares that this and several
>other page movement functions should work, but don't. Is this normal?
>If I run more from the prompt, the back page function works
>flawlessly (well, it works anyway) so this must be something coming
>from man. It's very frustrating to have to q, up arrow/enter, and
>page back down to the page just before the one I was on.
You want to install `less' (see /debian/binary/misc/ on the ftp site.)
This will allow you to go backwards even when the input comes from a
pipe.
You may want to set a PAGER variable somewhere to make sure it
actually gets used.
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