From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.152.1.129 with SMTP id 1mr5211094lam.3.1442500182757; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:29:42 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.152.45.73 with SMTP id k9ls96597lam.19.gmail; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:29:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.152.21.42 with SMTP id s10mr3718815lae.9.1442500182004; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com (mail-wi0-x22a.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id et8si85995wib.2.2015.09.17.07.29.41 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:29:41 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of chneuk...@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of chneuk...@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=chneuk...@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass head...@gmail.com Received: by mail-wi0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id fx3so29622803wic.0 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:29:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=n904gVXpkJo3n72XG39hHhHv+Q7bqhYCpH3NvXT8dRQ=; b=McuBtR91ugAQFT+nH0qhB1idQCD9jwMwhoMjlHOY+kKyJUY5iqcliS6aNGWTdnJU3p LQdLiS0d4df08jTBfVy7BuRCMfW+3zaGzPnda35+EzjgmQNCvBYmYdPXw/EdAAUflwOd tP9sVWoqsBrEhdcOW5sDODLjaPU9VTMiELZ66WSRq/KYDDqgcSBKxiGVQJNiGbC9NXf9 i39HWSChi7VHy1DJP9IvaCZ8zbQFPQDI0r5RTrx6WEMzAg5uE9Tc8+vzbugEFjwNUc3/ o7Mb8ZUSgBRqp0sg+cY5YhCLYGO+l5/385NErYtXvbf5/5oZKJ6CV/VLN39NBtHCq77t 8X5w== X-Received: by 10.194.77.4 with SMTP id o4mr35943430wjw.4.1442500181840; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:29:41 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from juno.home.vuxu.org ([2001:4ca0:0:f231:a288:b4ff:fea1:ce50]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d1sm10428465wiz.0.2015.09.17.07.29.40 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/0); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (juno.home.vuxu.org [local]) by juno.home.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 348b6503; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:32:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Neukirchen To: Juan RP Cc: voidlinux Subject: Re: More, manpages References: <58e3c983-e756-43a1-98de-96357bc022c8@googlegroups.com> <67e3bcee-9ade-4722-892b-ef0b1c00f0e1@googlegroups.com> <0b46368b-669c-4f8d-8bc7-66302a3e217b@googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:32:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <0b46368b-669c-4f8d-8bc7-66302a3e217b@googlegroups.com> (Juan RP's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:15:15 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <87mvwlru96.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Juan RP writes: > The default pager is more(1), as you've found out, less(1) is more. > > So that if you need a decent pager set PAGER=less in your shell environment. OTOH, mandb defaulted to "less", so we could just as well patch manpage.c (no idea why OpenBSD doesn't do that, they ship less as well in the base system.) -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org