On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:30:03AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:33:14AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Wayne Topa wrote: > > >Douglas A. Tutty(dtutty@porchlight.ca) is reported to have said: > > >>Just for completeness, you didn't need a google search. The info is > > >>somewhere around line 721 in the ssh(1) man page. :)) > > > > > >Not on my boxen Douglas. It ends on line 579. I just read the man > > >page, again, and still don't see it. I'm only half way through my > > >first cup of coffe so I will go back and read it again after cup 3-4. > > >It must be in the AUTHENTICATION section. > > > > man formats things to your particular page size on-screen in most > > setups, so referring to things in man pages by page number, is almost > > universally -- worthless. > > Then perhaps Debian's man system should report something more useful > than line number. OBSD gives a percentage. man uses /usr/bin/pager -s which points to /etc/alternatives/pager. I was not abnle to determine exactly how to configure what options may be invoked. It appears that, at least here, less is used and somehow knows to display things differently for a manpage. that makes it a bit frustrating to figure out, but I'm sure there is a way to make man behave the way you suggest. It may involve creating your own set of options to pass to /usr/bin/pager and setting it in /etc/manpath.config hth A
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