[ale] man man

[rs at ale.spam.futz.org]

>When I'm reading a man page and press 'q' to exit to the command prompt, the
>man page information is cleared.  Is there a quit command that will leave up
>the part of the man page information that is displayed at that time?  I've
>looked for the answer in 'man', less' and 'more.'

from the less man page:

       -X or --no-init
              Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization strings to the terminal.  This is sometimes
              desirable if the deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clearing the screen.

export LESS="-X"

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