From: Seth Hover <seth....@gmail.com>
To: voidlinux <void...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: More, manpages
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 01:12:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbc8511c-8fb0-4e45-b8c0-5b673e4a6ea6@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bda2ec8f-2efb-404c-9bf3-e450bf31d766@googlegroups.com>
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On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 12:09:24 AM UTC+2, Donald Allen wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
i think that argument could be made for some distributions.
for a distro like void, a user could be reasonably expected to know how to
change their $PAGER or at least learn how to do this.
--seth
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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
2015-09-18 8:12 ` Seth Hover [this message]
2015-09-18 13:28 ` Donald Allen
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