[Techtalk] Evil alternate screens in gnome-terminal

[Carla Schroder]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 2:38 am, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > 
> > Well, 'q' means quit the man page, right? If you want to leave the man 
page 
> > open, open a new tab or terminal to run the commands in.
> 
> Yes, but that's what Akkana wants to avoid having to do.
> Basically the idea is, that you look at the man page, and the contents
> of the man page should stay on your terminal when you quit out of it,
> so that the bit you were looking at is right there in your terminal,
> and then you can just type the command at the prompt.
> 

Thanks, I get it now.
signed, slow but sure

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