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Re: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X



This might help if you use vim -
alias viman="man --pager=\"col -b | vim -R -T linux -c 'set ft=man nomod  nolist' -c 'sy on' -\""


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Bill Moseley wrote :

| Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:42:09 -0700
| From: Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>
| To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| Subject: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X
| Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 21:54:46 -0700
| Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
|
| When I view a man page or run vi or nano from xterm or Konsole and then
| exit, the screen is restored to the way it was before I started the
| program.
|
| This doesn't happen when not running X.  How do I disable this?  I like
| to be able to scroll down in a man page, exit, and leave that text
| viewable.
|
| Thanks,
|
|

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