Le ven. 29 janv. 2021 à 12:28, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
<mtk.manpa...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 12:00, Bastien Roucariès
> <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Le jeudi 28 janvier 2021, 09:31:00 UTC Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit :
> > > 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"?
> >
> > Yes, debian distribution have been patched to fallback to pager that is less
> > by default. But it is not the standard
>
> I use Fedora. The default is "less" on the applications I looked at.
> When you say "it is not the standard", can you say more precisely what
> you mean?

According to POSIX mailx manual:
PAGER
Determine a string representing an output filtering or pagination
command for writing the output to the terminal. Any string acceptable
as a command_string operand to the sh -c command shall be valid. When
standard output is a terminal device, the message output shall be
piped through the command if the mailx internal variable crt is set to
a value less the number of lines in the message; see Internal
Variables in mailx. If the PAGER variable is null or not set, the
paginator shall be either more or another paginator utility documented
in the system documentation. The effects of this variable are
unspecified if the User Portability Utilities option is not supported.

So it is up to the distribution to use less,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
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