Re: "less" or "man" clear-screen issue

> Daniel Haude: > > when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with "less", what > > bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on > > exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two terminals (or > > use screen) when I need to keep an eye on the manp

Re: "less" or "man" clear-screen issue

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 10:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Daniel Haude: > > > > when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with "less", what > > bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on > > exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two termina

Re: "less" or "man" clear-screen issue

Jochen Schulz wrote: > Actually, this is a feature of your terminal that less is using (and > most people like it). But you should be able to turn it off completely > (independent of the program), see > . Thanks, that fixed it. --D. signature.a

Re: "less" or "man" clear-screen issue

Daniel Haude: > > when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with "less", what > bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on > exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two terminals (or > use screen) when I need to keep an eye on the manpage whi

"less" or "man" clear-screen issue

Hello, when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with "less", what bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two terminals (or use screen) when I need to keep an eye on the manpage while trying to comp