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Re: [Sheflug] Man search
Denis Nikitin wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
Pressing / then typing the word you're after normally works. Depends
if you're using things non-standard to look at the man pages, but it
works on most implementations I think.
Depends on man pager settings - coming either from PAGER or MANPAGER
environment variable.
By default is usually /usr/bin/less.
in my man config file (/etc/man.config) I 've got PAGER set to
/usr/bin/less -isr
which I assume is a default, since I don't remember changing it :)
Mine defaults to more, not less :)
- J
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