[ale] MOST, was: Re: I am so tired of Linux Fanatics

[James Sumners]

It's not usually installed by default. Which is a real shame, because
most rocks. But that is why I set the environment variable the way I
do. I can carry my bashrc with me wherever I go and if most is there
then I get it. If not, *shrug*.

Oh, and a slight tweak that I keep forgetting to put in:

[ -e "`which most 2>/dev/null`" ] && export PAGER='most'

Keep the thing from complaining when most isn't present.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Thu July 8 2010, James Sumners wrote:
>> The typical man page viewer (PAGER) is `more`. But you could just as
>> easily use `less` or something else. In fact, I use `most` as my
>> viewer. I use the following line in my ~/.bashrc to make the change:
>>
>> [ -e "`which most`" ] && export PAGER='most'
>>
>> Then you can use whatever search command your pager uses to search the
>> manual you are currently viewing.
>
> I did not have most installed..
>
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