Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:43:51 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G Message-ID: <19157.11479.415746.171606@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <521176.60565.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <521176.60565.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Chris Stankevitz writes: > Please try this: > > 1. at the prompt type "man man" to get the man manual page. > 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document > 3. press k to scroll up one line > > You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man "quits back > to the prompt after CTRL-G". > > Question: How can I make man not "quit back to the prompt after > CTRL-G"? On my system, the result of (1) and (2) is the screen remains at the first page of output and lines 1-34 byte 1821 (press RETURN) appears at the bottom of the screen in reverse video. Robert Huff
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