Re: less, exit but left content on screen

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:54:52AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On 8/4/2007 6:06 PM, Tong Sun wrote:
> > Package: less
> > Version: 394-4
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x' or
> > something so that the content just viewed is left on screen, instead of
> > being cleared and restored to the screen before invoking 'less'. But I
> > found there is no such capability in current less (version 394). Or
> > is there? 
> 
> I'm running standard Etch, with less version 394-4.  I've always exited
> less with 'q', which leaves the screen intact.
> 
> If -X works, I wonder what is different between our terminals.  My
> $TERM = linux.
> 
> In any event, less(1) doesn't show a command key 'x' that I can see.

I just tried man in xfce-terminal and find that q does clear the screen.
How unhelpful; another good reason to use the text console :)

Doug.