Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:02 -0700 From: Chris Stankevitz <cstankevitz@toyon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G Message-ID: <4AD56B3A.4070905@toyon.com> In-Reply-To: <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <521176.60565.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com><19157.11479.415746.171606@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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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
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