Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:47:34 +0000 (GMT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions regarding $PAGER Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1050315174419.68228C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <9a59e9089e0ba18e22d7a0f4ffde466a@mac.com>
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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" >
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