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Re: 'M-v' not working in man pages



Rodolfo Medina writes:

> Hi.
> When I'm reading a manual page, I do 'C-v' to go one screen ahead,
> but 'M-v' does not work to go one screen back: when I do 'M-v',
> the View menu is displayed instead.
> How can I fix that?
> I have Sarge stable, and Gnome.

Which pager are you using?

$ update-alternatives --display pager

will tell you. With `less` as the default pager you can just use SPACE
and b to move through man screens...

-- 
--Jhair



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