[Techtalk] Evil alternate screens in gnome-terminal

[Avery Ke]

jm wrote:
>Ignore this if I misunderstand the problem, but if the issue
>is to keep the screen from clearing what it had been displaying after
>you exit man (or after you view anything displayed by your default
>pager), you can disable that by setting your $PAGER variable to
>'less -X'.  Hope this helps someone...
>

Thanks. I've added a line to my .bashrc file :)
alias less='less -rX'
(-r causes `^A'  to appear on screen simply as `A')

However, the default pager for man on my box (debian unstable) is
/usr/bin/lv which does not, as far as I can see, have an option
equivalent to -X.

Avery

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