From: Donald Allen <donald...@gmail.com>
To: voidlinux <void...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: More, manpages
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:09:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bda2ec8f-2efb-404c-9bf3-e450bf31d766@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b46368b-669c-4f8d-8bc7-66302a3e217b@googlegroups.com>
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On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 10:15:15 AM UTC-4, Juan RP wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I've done that. But my point is that the distribution shouldn't include an
indecent pager by default, especially for something as fundamental as man.
I installed from void-live-x86_64-20150713.iso
<http://repo.voidlinux.eu/live/current/void-live-x86_64-20150713.iso> and
less was installed. I assume, but don't know, that it is installed by
default by the other live images. But if it isn't, it should be. Not being
able to move around freely in man pages is a real problem, and I think many
will not know how to change the pager. And they shouldn't have to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-17 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-16 18:29 Donald Allen
2015-09-16 18:38 ` Duncaen
2015-09-16 20:58 ` Donald Allen
2015-09-17 8:02 ` Duncaen
2015-09-17 7:01 ` Pierre Bourgin
2015-09-17 11:14 ` Donald Allen
2015-09-17 14:15 ` Juan RP
2015-09-17 14:32 ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-09-17 22:09 ` Donald Allen [this message]
2015-09-18 8:12 ` Seth Hover
2015-09-18 13:28 ` Donald Allen
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