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Re: man beeps more than woman



> >  On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > If you set PAGER=3D'less -q' that will work.

I only use PAGER=less and control less through LESS variable

> Roberto C  Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com>:
> >  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?

On 20.05.07 00:40, s. keeling wrote:
> The way to control less is with the LESS env. variable.  I set it to
> "-ceigqj5MX".

"egiMqRsS#8" here. last few months I use to turn G on and S off, but in
less, by typing "-G", "-S".

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