questions regarding $PAGER

[Charles Swiger]

On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Adam Michalak wrote:
> I have a few questions regarding the pagers more and less.
> If I type "man more" at the prompt i get the man page for less
> are more and less now considered interchangeable?

FreeBSD might actually ship with less configured to replace more.

> When I do view a file with more my percentage of the file
> viewed is displayed in the bottom right hand screen.
>
> However when I view a manpage the number of bytes viewed
> as opposed to percentage is displayed at the bottom right
> hand of the screen.  How can i set this so that percentage is
> displayed by default?

Consider adding something like this to your shell startup:

LESS='-cdegiMMs -h20 -j4'
export LESS

[ If you use tcsh, use setenv instead. ]

-- 
-Chuck