[ale] man man

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Thu Jul 22 18:55:17 EDT 2010


James Sumners wrote:
> 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.
>>     
>
>   
I'm sorry,  I thought you meant to set the PAGER variable. That would 
affect all programs that used less.  If you mean to put an alias in  
that file, then, sure. 

Jim.



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