man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G
Chris Stankevitz
cstankevitz at toyon.com
Wed Oct 14 06:10:07 UTC 2009
Bill Campbell wrote:
> The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of
> these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit
> at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second
> time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time.
Bill,
Thank you for your explanation. I hope to find that my PAGER
environment variable is "less -E". If so, I will drop the -E.
Chris
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