On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:34:54PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what your goal is. As far as I'm aware 'less' has a higher priority than 'more' in the alternatives system, so... Step 0: Confirm that less is installed. From here, it depends if you want to make this change just for yourself or system-wide. If you want to make this change local to your account you can set $PAGER to be $(which less) in your login scripts. If you want the change to be system-wide then running 'update-alternatives --config pager' as root will set $PAGER to be whatever you select there wherever it isn't otherwise over-ridden. Cheers, Tom -- Kilroe hic erat!
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