[ale] man man

[James Sumners]

Isn't that what I said?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
>> That would be a preferred place for system wide changes. But the more
>> versatile method is to let users set their own options. If you would
>> like to suggest default options for new users then the appropriate
>> place for that would be in the `/etc/skel/` files [1].
>>
>> [1] -- http://www.linfo.org/etc_skel.html
>>
> Unless, of course, you don't want the change to be global but only
> effective for man.   I'd guess that many of the people on this list run
> Linux as a single user system or at least have only one person that
> cares about keeping the output of man visible.  My wife probably has
> never used man, for instance.
>
> Jim.


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