[ale] man man

[jcpilman at gmail.com]

Thanks folks.  For now, I've mod'd Jim's response to:
alias manu="LESS='-X' man
so I can switch between the two.

..John

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> or run:
>
> LESS='-X' man foo
>
>
> or set up an alias:
>
> alias man="LESS='-X' man"
>
> Nice trick. wish I'd seen this a LONG time ago!
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 10:39 -0400, Scott McBrien wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> As rs at ale.spam.futz.org pointed out, use the LESS shell variable to
>> control the behavior of the less pager.  To make it all explicit, I'd do
>> the following in your shell's startup script:
>>
>> MANPAGER=less
>> LESS='-X'
>>
>> export MANPAGER LESS
>>
>> Then all your shell sessions will have the same behavior.
>>
>> What I don't know is whether or not there will be any side effects, the
>> man page says this:
>>
>>        -X or --no-init
>>              Disables  sending  the termcap initialization and deini-
>>               tialization strings to the terminal.  This is  sometimes
>>              desirable  if the deinitialization string does something
>>              unnecessary, like clearing the screen.
>>
>> It would seem to me like this could mean that you may occasionally have
>> terminal states that less won't be able to deal with; you might have to
>> use the reset(1) command to make things work properly in such an event.
>>
>>        --- Mike
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