[ale] man man

[Jim Kinney]

or run:

LESS='-X' man foo


or set up an alias:

alias man="LESS='-X' man"

Nice trick. wish I'd seen this a LONG time ago!

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 10:39 -0400, Scott McBrien wrote:
> > It's a less option to not clear the screen on exit.
> >
> > There is a less variable that contains commandline arguments for less.
> > I don't remember the option off the top of my head, but it is in the
> > less man page, as is the variable that holds the less arguments.
> > Something like:
> > export LESS_OPTS="-c"
> >
> > But again, check the man page for both variable name and command opt.
>
> As rs at ale.spam.futz.org pointed out, use the LESS shell variable to
> control the behavior of the less pager.  To make it all explicit, I'd do
> the following in your shell's startup script:
>
> MANPAGER=less
> LESS='-X'
>
> export MANPAGER LESS
>
> Then all your shell sessions will have the same behavior.
>
> What I don't know is whether or not there will be any side effects, the
> man page says this:
>
>        -X or --no-init
>              Disables  sending  the termcap initialization and deini-
>               tialization strings to the terminal.  This is  sometimes
>              desirable  if the deinitialization string does something
>              unnecessary, like clearing the screen.
>
> It would seem to me like this could mean that you may occasionally have
> terminal states that less won't be able to deal with; you might have to
> use the reset(1) command to make things work properly in such an event.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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