On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 2:38:47 PM UTC-4, Duncaen wrote:

About 'v', do you have setup $EDITOR or $VISUAL in your shell environment.
On the problem with 'b' or '^b', the man page of more says it only works with files and not with pipes, is this the problem?

Sounds very plausible. I'm used to the man on Arch, which presents the man pages in a vim-like environment (maybe it is vim?). The simple vi commands work, and 'gg' gets you to the top, as in vim. The use of more, particularly if you can't scroll back, is big step backwards (pun intended).

For me it works as expected with st as terminal emulator.

That would not seem to be consistent with your pipe theory above. Why should the terminal emulator matter if more won't scroll back when its input is a pipe? Nonetheless, I tried installing st and its behavior is bizarre. Every character displayed has a lot of whitespace after it, including what you type. I could not get man to work and gave up. I am running a newly installed Void on a PC with an AMD processor, ATI video hardware and no desktop system, just a window manager (dwm).

Am Mittwoch, 16. September 2015 20:29:25 UTC+2 schrieb Donald Allen:
When displaying manpages with man, more is used. Typing '?' at more claims that 'b' or 'ctrl-b' will scroll backwards. It does not work. The 'v' command doesn't work either.