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Date:      Wed, 06 Dec 2017 22:35:47 +0000
From:      Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>
To:        jamie@catflap.org, asomers@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, by@meetlost.com
Subject:   Re: Strange behavior about pattern matching on manual pages [FIXED]
Message-ID:  <201712062235.vB6MZlQv034650@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2hWLefYvC51w=1bb2=TodnkhjB2jH9Zb9xKFmKORxWvjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> How about just setting MANPAGER=less in your environment?

Because some of us prefer "more"?

And as I said, it's related to searching using the more(1) command generally.

I was under the impression that fixing bugs in existing commands was a better
solution than telling someone to simply use something else.



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