On 2017-05-15 18.57.57 -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > I think this may be normal, but I can't seem to find it documented anywhere. > While viewing a man page in xterm if I hit the 'v' key it appears to open it > for editing in vi. I did so accidentally recently and at first I thought I > broke something because of all the "F^HFI^HIL^HLE^,etc" which I assume are > man markup characters. I looked around for documentation on this "feature", > but I'm not sure where to look vi, mandoc, xterm? So is this a bug somewhere > or expected behavior?
less(1) _v_ Invokes an editor to edit the current file being viewed. The editor is taken from the environment variable VISUAL, if defined, or EDITOR if VISUAL is not defined, or defaults to "vi" if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR is defined. http://man.openbsd.org/less#v
