<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:13 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcpilman@gmail.com">jcpilman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
When I'm reading a man page and press 'q' to exit to the command prompt, the man page information is cleared. Is there a quit command that will leave up the part of the man page information that is displayed at that time? I've looked for the answer in 'man', less' and 'more.'<br>
</blockquote></div><br>It's likely you're using 'less' as your man page viewer. To change this
behavior you've got two options.<br>
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1. Change PAGER to 'more' (or some other viewer that doesn't clear the
screen)<br>
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2. Change PAGER to 'less -X' which should suppress less' clearing of the
screen when it exits.<br>
<br>Hope this helps.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dylan Northrup<br>"Adversity is just change we haven't adapted ourselves to yet."<br> - Aimee Mullins<br>