X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_HEADERS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:56:24 -0600 (CST) From: Tim McDaniel cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, carolus wrote: > After opening "man ls", trying to search for "--all" leads to > "Pattern not found (press RETURN)". My experiment agrees with that. Do you know why that happens -- what is it doing so "/--all" doesn't work? > Inquiring on comp.unix.shell, I was told that for this kind of > search to work properly in linux , one must set PAGER=less. However, > that does not seem to work in Cygwin, at least using the old default > terminal. Is there a workaround? Whether in an older default terminal or the new one, I've never had a problem with PAGER=/usr/bin/less export PAGER I do them as separate statements because older Bourne shells do not allow the combined form export PAGER=/usr/bin/less But bash does. Further, on my system with little customization, the default man pager is less anyway, so (for example) man ls invokes less anyway. -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple