[ale] man man

[drifter]

Yes, but when I make this change, the scroll wheel no longer advances the 
man page.  I like being able to keep the relevant section of the man page 
on the screen when I drop back to a command prompt, but having the scroll 
wheel on the mouse advance the man page is extremely useful.  Any idea how 
to set the options to get both?

I tried reading the man page on man, but I just got more confused.

Sean

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On Wednesday 21 July 2010 11:58:11 David A. De Graaf wrote:
> Fedora provides /etc/man.config to handle this sort of thing.
> IMHO, the default setup needs to be changed:
> 
>     # diff man.configSTD man.config
>     105c105
>     < PAGER         /usr/bin/less -is
>     ---
> 
>     > PAGER         /usr/bin/less -IcsRMX
> 
>     131c131
>     < #MANDEFOPTIONS        -a
>     ---
> 
>     > MANDEFOPTIONS -a
> 
> This is the preferred place to make such changes, I think.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:25:13PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch 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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