man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

[Ashok TM]

send me ur citiback card no

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Frank Shute <frank at shute.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> Chris,
>
> Set $PAGER to "less" and then set $LESS to something reasonable in
> your shells rc/profile.
>
> E.g On my machine:
>
> LESS="-Xrmj3z-3 -Pm?f%f\:\ .?pb%pb\%\ :?lt%lt. .?e(END)"
>
> All explained in less(1)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
>  Frank
>
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>
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