Re: Stupid Question...keymappings?
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Travis wrote:
> I recently helped a friend resurrect an old machine with Debian :-).
> There is one little thing that annoyed me, and will annoy him, the more
> he learns. The keymappings that I am used to don't always seem to
> work. For instance with a 'man man,' I couldn't use the vi(m) like
> keybindings for movement. Return was the only way to scroll down, and
> backspace wouldn't even scroll up. And if I did a search, it wouldn't
> highlight the results. If I searched for anything it couldn't find it
> just dropped me back to the shell. Certain things, like the backspace
> not scrolling up, happen in other apps like slrn. I vaguely remember
> this when I first set up my box running Sid. But very early on in my
> apting/configuring it "automagically" went away. I have run into this
> again with my Progeny setup. Other than these problems, the
> keymappings are working fine. I'm just not sure which package, or
> config I need to play with 8^). Any help or where I can RTFM greatly
> appreciated.
>
just a thought, but do you have 'less' installed?
I think man uses 'more' if 'less' isn't available and hence you can't
scroll up, etc.
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