Re: man is using gxditview
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 variables, how man works & set.
embarrassingly yours,
John
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> 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, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> > 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 in console mode, but as user, this
> > is the message I get:
> > Error: Can't open display:
> > man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim
> > '/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100
> >
> > In X, gxditview just comes up empty. Then, when I exit gxditview, I
> > get this:
> > man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim
> > '/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100
> >
> > PS: This is a low priority problem, as info <subject> works, but is
> > there an underlying problem with my system?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > >
> > > 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 ago, but as yet haven't
> > > > found how to change it back to using less.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > John
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