On 1/27/21 4:48 PM, roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Bastien Roucariès <ro...@debian.org>
> 
> More is the default pager in a lot of system mention it

Really "more" and not "less"?

On my system, 'git commit' and 'man' use less(1) when PAGER 
is not set.

Thanks,

Michael

> ---
>  man7/environ.7 | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
> index 81932d894..981038ea1 100644
> --- a/man7/environ.7
> +++ b/man7/environ.7
> @@ -132,7 +132,12 @@ The terminal type for which output is to be prepared.
>  The user's preferred utility to display text files.
>  Any string acceptable as a command_string operand to the
>  .I sh\ \-c
> -command shall be valid.
> +command shall be valid. If the
> +.B PAGER
> +variable is null or not set,
> +command could fall back
> +.B more (1)
> +or any suitable paging utility as the system default.
>  .TP
>  .BR EDITOR / VISUAL
>  The user's preferred utility to edit text files.
> @@ -362,6 +367,7 @@ should use instead an explicit \(aq\fB.\fP\(aq.
>  .BR env (1),
>  .BR login (1),
>  .BR mktemp (1),
> +.BR more (1),
>  .BR printenv (1),
>  .BR sh (1),
>  .BR su (1),
> 


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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

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