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Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim
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Nate Bargmann |
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Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?) |
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Mon, 17 May 2021 13:28:32 -0500 |
* On 2021 17 May 11:50 -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Maybe less's build system has a switch to compile in a different
> default? Maybe this is a recent change? Maybe I'm completely wrong?
> I haven't looked at the source or built it myself from github; I'm
> going by the behavior on my systems, behavior I've observed on other
> systems, and the wording of the man page (which documents "-i" to
> invoke case-mostly-insensitive searches rather than an option to
> switch to case-sensitive ones).
It might be interesting to compare the Slackware build script to that of
Debian. A few years ago I ran Slackware for a while and it defaulted to
using most for man pages and IIRC, Git output as well. I know I spent
some time getting Slackware's less to work with Git but it was never as
satisfactory as Debian's less is for handling Git.
Just a small data point.
I do set quite a number of LESS_TERMCAP_* environment variables in my
~/.bashrc for man pages.
- Nate
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- Re: man-intro, (continued)
- Re: man-intro (was: getting more out of man pages with less(1) ), Larry Kollar, 2021/05/29
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- Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1), Steffen Nurpmeso, 2021/05/23
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- Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?), Dave Kemper, 2021/05/17
- Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?),
Nate Bargmann <=
- Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?), Mike, 2021/05/26