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From:	"Ananth Chellappa" <ananth DOT ch AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: less ti/te termcap stuff
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Thanks Igor,

         I'll look for what PAGER is set to and try to add flags
there. Really appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Ananth

On 1/20/08, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> Ananth,
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE>.  I've redirected this reply to the
> list and set the Reply-To: appropriately -- please make sure your mailer
> honors it.
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Ananth Chellappa wrote:
>
> > Hi Igor,
> >        I saw a post by you related to vim not showing correct
> > behaviour - not restoring the screen when it exits like less or man.
> > My question is this :  you can get less to not do that by using the -X
> > switch. Is there a way to do that with "man"?
>
> "man" uses the PAGER environment variable to select the pager program.  By
> default it uses "less -isrR", IIRC.  You can add any other flags to the
> less command by setting PAGER in your environment.
>        Igor
> --
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> "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.  That is the whole
> Torah; the rest is commentary.  Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel
>


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