Re: man beeps more than woman
Roberto C Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com>:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Deboo ^ wrote:
> > > I already made an alias to less to use less -q. That works if I use
> > > less manually but just not in man.
> > >
> > > I'll try what Greg said above.
> >
> > If you set PAGER=3D'less -q' that will work.
>
> Why is it that the alias won't be picked up by man? It seems that man
> spawns a pager process in order to allow viewing of the formatted man
> page:
>
> 5904 pts/1 S+ 0:00 man man
> 5914 pts/1 S+ 0:00 pager -s
>
> What I don't understand is how if /usr/bin/pager is a symlink to
> /usr/bin/less, then how will the alias not be used?
The way to control less is with the LESS env. variable. I set it to
"-ceigqj5MX".
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