Re: tip of the day: stop prevent 'man' from clearing the screen on exit
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 09:50:22 -0400, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> On my debian system, whenever I used man, I was annoyed that the
> screen was cleared when I exited man. This made it hard to refer to
> the text that was on the screen before I exited man.
Here the screen is not cleared: the previous screen is restored
(and I like that, in general).
> Some research revealed that on my system, man invoked the pager
> 'less'. I tried setting my pager to 'more', but 'more' can't scroll
> backwards in a man page, and I didn't want to lose that functionality.
>
> So, the fix was to do a
>
> export LESS=X
>
> in my ~/.bashrc. This avoids the screen clearing "problem" on exit
> for regular uses of 'less' as well.
or: export PAGER="less -X" if you don't want to affect less itself.
FYI, I use the following options:
PAGER: less -is
LESS: -ciMR
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