From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 11:37:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A227A106566C for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atmblr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f214.google.com (mail-gx0-f214.google.com [209.85.217.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD018FC20 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk6 with SMTP id 6so10224538gxk.13 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:37:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=XlyfTeQqTvTGCImknQPeNrPjS8Pn8IUb4E4mpTBKiDE=; b=SFsWfQjQh0Y3rtnjPHJjYnukPkvZSsn1kSXFwlI2jEUA0lBoBS/rVA38eMVV2dFvPl XbPZFW3NYy6PCcmPEuXeqTRshPqtvp0MzPpI7iHtjfqqthTxR/m5GMzBriWzilzdDYZO sYa1cGhKwd4XMuy53tcByg1+xsBf+b3cOr/qQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ulYpT8qw4M2ABSQlxz4o++v0XIFUE1rQ3Tpbinm3RfuKf7WG+T2JL5nVgPYZqLySPy fa4jeuSbAOl1VAMg6GYZHwc1BBNrDzTe6UNvvmzMaVe7tVhrRKVwN6WwiJpgqj8yZg0z RML13hnDXDNnoTYixrPCFrxHJrwOliIfZLwG0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.59.17 with SMTP id m17mr7079212ank.13.1255518313262; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:05:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091014081030.GA50437@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <4AD56B3A.4070905@toyon.com> <20091014081030.GA50437@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:35:13 +0530 Message-ID: From: Ashok TM To: Frank Shute , Chris Stankevitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:37:57 -0000 send me ur citiback card no On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > Chris, > > Set $PAGER to "less" and then set $LESS to something reasonable in > your shells rc/profile. > > E.g On my machine: > > LESS="-Xrmj3z-3 -Pm?f%f\:\ .?pb%pb\%\ :?lt%lt. .?e(END)" > > All explained in less(1) > > Regards, > > -- > > Frank > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >