[ale] man man

[Scott McBrien]

It's a less option to not clear the screen on exit.

There is a less variable that contains commandline arguments for less.  I don't remember the option off the top of my head, but it is in the less man page, as is the variable that holds the less arguments.  Something like:
export LESS_OPTS="-c"

But again, check the man page for both variable name and command opt.

-Scott

On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:23 AM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> This bugs me also.  I just open a second tab in the terminal window.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday 19 July 2010 10:13:27 jcpilman at gmail.com wrote:
>> 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.'
>> 
>> 
>> ...John
>> 
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