Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:12:59 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G Message-ID: <20091014141259.GA14005@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <4AD56B3A.4070905@toyon.com> References: <521176.60565.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <19157.11479.415746.171606@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <4AD56B3A.4070905@toyon.com>
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, 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. You probably also want the ``-r'' option which I think gets less to properly highlight the nroff things like bold. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. -- Murray N. Rothbard
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