[Techtalk] Evil alternate screens in gnome-terminal

John Clarke johnc+linuxchix at kirriwa.net
Wed Mar 31 18:33:49 EST 2004


On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:48:42 -0500, Avery Ke wrote:

> 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

Do you know that you can change the pager used by man?  Set the
environment variable MANPAGER to be your preferred pager, e.g. "less
-isr"


Cheers,

John
-- 
Giving the impression that you pee on your keyboard and a monitor
is a good way of making sure noone else touches your keyboard or
monitor.
            -- Abigail


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