From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 06:10:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486FC1065670 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:10:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cstankevitz@toyon.com) Received: from smtp1.toyon.com (206-190-77-154.static.twtelecom.net [206.190.77.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1498C8FC13 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.1.49] (hosts253.toyon.com [65.160.147.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp1.toyon.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n9E6Exnx012407 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:14:59 -0700 Message-ID: <4AD56B3A.4070905@toyon.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:02 -0700 From: Chris Stankevitz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <521176.60565.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com><19157.11479.415746.171606@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:10:07 -0000 Bill Campbell wrote: > The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of > these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit > at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second > time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time. Bill, Thank you for your explanation. I hope to find that my PAGER environment variable is "less -E". If so, I will drop the -E. Chris