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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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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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