Package: man
Version: 2.3.10-6
I can't seem to find a way to set MANOPT to change the default pager for
displaying man pages to less -s.
I want to do this:
MANOPT='-P less -s'
But man apparently doesn't parse the double quotes, and treats the -s as a ne
w
man option. The man page for
A work-around would be to construct a shell program that evaluated to
less -c and pass the name of that program in MANOPT. An alias won't
always be expanded where you want it to be - it depends on how
the program executes a command line - it has the option to not use the
shell to do that at all.
Bruce == Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[unnecessary kludge deleted]
Bruce By chance, does man evaluate the $PAGER variable? I don't
Bruce have man working at the moment on my own system due to an
Bruce ELF library conflict.
You're right, man evaluates $PAGER (I'm using
less(1) shows that the program takes options from the $LESS.
Thanks for the hint. Setting LESS to -c makes less work the way I wanted
within MH.
(As always it pays to RTM, just couldn't resist :)
Yes, you're right. But the problem (and I think this is an interesting
problem) is to figure
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