From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 01:12:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Seth Hover To: voidlinux Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <58e3c983-e756-43a1-98de-96357bc022c8@googlegroups.com> <67e3bcee-9ade-4722-892b-ef0b1c00f0e1@googlegroups.com> <0b46368b-669c-4f8d-8bc7-66302a3e217b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: More, manpages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_1740_355189066.1442563978634" ------=_Part_1740_355189066.1442563978634 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1741_1605219198.1442563978634" ------=_Part_1741_1605219198.1442563978634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > 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 ------=_Part_1741_1605219198.1442563978634 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=C2=A0void-live-x86_6= 4-20150713.iso=C2=A0and 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 t= hat argument could be made for some distributions.

for a distro lik= e void, a user could be reasonably expected to know how to change their $PA= GER or at least learn how to do this.

--seth
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