Re: less, exit but left content on screen

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/05/2007 10:00 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:54:52AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > [...]
> > 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.

The "-X" should be specified either as a command line option to less or 
in the environment variable LESS. Try this in xfce-terminal:

export LESS="-X"
man less


:-)