Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:55:05 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G Message-ID: <d7195cff0910131855n7b5d6dd4w56829441810c654a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <521176.60565.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <521176.60565.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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2009/10/13 Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com>:
> 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"?
>
from man 1 more:
= or ^G or :f
Prints some information about the file being viewed, including
its name and the line number and byte offset of the bottom line
being displayed. If possible, it also prints the length of the
file, the number of lines in the file and the percent of the
file above the last displayed line.
so if you mean shift-G, then the default behaviour of more(1) is to exit when
it reaches the end of the file, & (IIRC, obviously YMMV) the default pager is
set to more.
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