X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:32:52 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Ananth Chellappa cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: less ti/te termcap stuff In-Reply-To: <662c20f60801201345j47d6020ieeae31bade4ec31@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <662c20f60801201345j47d6020ieeae31bade4ec31@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Ananth, . 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/