Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:02 -0700 Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: > > The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of > > these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit > > at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second > > time

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of >> these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit >> at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second >> time it hits eof while

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Ashok TM
send me ur citiback card no On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > > > Bill Campbell wrote: > > >The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of > > >these specified if you don't want to have le

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > Bill Campbell wrote: > >The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of > >these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit > >at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second > >t

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time. Bill, Thank you for your e

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Campbell
ne line >> >> You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man "quits back >> to the prompt after CTRL-G". >> >> Question: How can I make man not "quit back to the prompt after >> CTRL-G"? The -e and -E options to less control thi

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/10/13 Chris Stankevitz : > Please try this: > > 1. at the prompt type "man man" to get the man manual page. > 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document > 3. press k to scroll up one line > > You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man &qu

man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Stankevitz writes: > Please try this: > > 1. at the prompt type "man man" to get the man manual page. > 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document > 3. press k to scroll up one line > > You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because ma

man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Please try this: 1. at the prompt type "man man" to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man "quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G". Question: How