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So what's the deal with Debians default Manpage viewer?
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So what's the deal with Debians default Manpage viewer?
Call me finicky, but I'm used to VI style navigation while using man pages. In the installation of Debian that I just got going, however, the man pages are acting quite strangely. I can only move through by hitting enter and it doesn't seem as though there's any way to back up at all. It's really been driving me up the wall, actually. Anyone know what the difference is? Is there a switch that I can make an alias to or something?
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You need to change the PAGER environment variable.
Example: to use 'less' as the system file pager - assuming you use bash, and also assuming you have 'less' installed (which it wasn't on my Debian install) - add the following to your /etc/profile file:
The same syntax can be used to change the pager on a per-user basis by adding to ~/.bashrc (if memory serves me correctly; bash uses a number of different config files, in various degrees of priority.)
Example: to use 'less' as the system file pager - assuming you use bash, and also assuming you have 'less' installed (which it wasn't on my Debian install) - add the following to your /etc/profile file:
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export PAGER="less -X"