Re: lv vs. more as PAGER
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:42, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Sep 28, 2002, James D Strandboge (jstrand1@rochester.rr.com) wrote:
> > I like when using 'more' as the pager, manpages aren't cleared from the
> > screen after quitting man. Can lv do this as well? Haven't been able
> > to find anything.
>
> Note: lv is a pager capable of displaying multilingual streams. Some
> people may not be familiar with it.
>
> The screen-clearing behavior of man is configurable when using less as a
> pager. I'd suspect it's also tunable using less (see the '-X' option).
> I'd look at the lv manpage for a similar option.
>
> Peace.
>
Thanks for your tip. I used less and it worked great, but thought the
lv people shouldn't be left out so I made a patch for lv which created
the '-X' option, and I sent to the debian maintainer and the author.
Hopefully it can be included in a future release.
Jamie Strandboge
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