On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:11:31AM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I view a man page or run vi or nano from xterm or Konsole and then > > exit, the screen is restored to the way it was before I started the > > program. > > > > This doesn't happen when not running X. How do I disable this? I like > > to be able to scroll down in a man page, exit, and leave that text > > viewable.
Weird ... the problem doesn't happen on my machine at all. However, I use gnome-terminal, not xterm, so that might make a difference. ... Yes, after installing and running xterm, I can confirm that. Is there someone who knows why? > I like that too. This is more of a less issue and less of a man issue. > > When man fetches a man page to display, it pumps the data to the > default pager - generally 'less'. > > One method to fix this is to change your default pager, example: > > export PAGER=cat > > Another option is to tell less to disable sending the termcap > initialization and deinitializtion strings to the terminal. (see > less(1)). > > export LESS="-X" > > As for vi or nano, perhaps there is something similar described in > their man pages. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
