William Yang wrote: >> Also, I don't >> like the behavior where "man" will return the screen to what it was before >> running.. making it harder to do cut-n-paste or scroll up to re-read a >> section. That is a major PITA too. > > I think that's more a function of the man pager, in which case 'less' likes > to return the screen, whereas 'more' doesn't. You can set your man pager by > exporting the PAGER environment variable. I'm not sure if 'less' has > options to make it behave more similarly; it probably does as well.
'less -X'. Even better: 'LESS=-X ; export LESS'. Mike. -- mike.oliver at sun.com
