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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.