From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 17:50:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1F216A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:50:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF1543D46 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2FHlaFN064576; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:47:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost)j2FHlZDb064573; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:47:36 GMT (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:47:34 +0000 (GMT) From: doug To: Charles Swiger In-Reply-To: <9a59e9089e0ba18e22d7a0f4ffde466a@mac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Adam Michalak cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions regarding $PAGER X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:50:12 -0000 Thanks, your excellent answer prompted me to actually read the less man page :) Lots of usful stuff. One question. On 4.11, at least no meaning is suggested for MM (rather than M). Is this a typo or an undocumented feature? On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Adam Michalak wrote: > > I have a few questions regarding the pagers more and less. > > If I type "man more" at the prompt i get the man page for less > > are more and less now considered interchangeable? > > FreeBSD might actually ship with less configured to replace more. > > > When I do view a file with more my percentage of the file > > viewed is displayed in the bottom right hand screen. > > > > However when I view a manpage the number of bytes viewed > > as opposed to percentage is displayed at the bottom right > > hand of the screen. How can i set this so that percentage is > > displayed by default? > > Consider adding something like this to your shell startup: > > LESS='-cdegiMMs -h20 -j4' > export LESS > > [ If you use tcsh, use setenv instead. ] > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >