Re: default pager (csh)

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:10:36 -0700 (MST) Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com>
wrote

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote:
> >> 
> >> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear
> >> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences),
> >> while less(1) when running as less does.
> >> 
> >> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even
> >> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste
> >> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the
> >> more vocal ones when it comes to a change.
> >
> > I find that behaviour infuriating
> >
> > I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as  a
> > reference,  then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* the
> > info I wanted  to use has gone away.
> 
> It doesn't do that on csh.  Or maybe I figured out how to prevent it 
> long ago and forgot, but all I use is this:
> 
> setenv  PAGER   "less -RS"
Ugh. It would kill me to *re*read the man pages, once and awhile.

Thanks, Warren!

--Chris
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