Re: Newbie questions
* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [Mar 09. 2003 15:40]:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> > 3 - How do I go backwards in a man page reading? Looks like 'more'
> > is used to page the ouput to screen, but 'b' or ^B does not work
> > here. Silly question, maybe...
> 'more' can't go back when reading from standard input. Try installing
> 'less' instead; it's a better pager in other ways anyway.
Now would be a great to mention update-alternatives too. :-)
update-alternatives(8) (when you get man working)
(~)% update-alternatives --config pager
There are 3 programs which provide `pager'.
Selection Command
-----------------------------------------------
1 /bin/more
*+ 2 /usr/bin/less
3 /usr/bin/w3m
Enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:
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