[ale] man man

[James Sumners]

This is probably a terminal emulator thing. Basically, if your
terminal emulator supports storing, and re-storing, the screen then
`more`, `less`, and `most` are going to take advantage of it.

I think the best way around this is to use `screen` [1]. Then you can
split your terminal window horizontally. Then you can use the top half
for your man page view and the bottom half for your terminal input.

If you have never used screen before you might want to grab my
screenrc [2]. I have re-bound the keys for splitting to something that
makes sense. "Ctrl-a s" to create a split and "Ctrl-a S" to remove a
split. A quick screen tutorial can be read at [3].

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen
[2] -- http://bitbucket.org/jsumners/rcfiles/src/tip/screenrc
[3] -- http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:13 AM,  <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.'
>
>
> ...John
>
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