Xucaen wrote:
>
> here's a quick question; In my debian
> installation when I use man I can only page up,
> page down and scroll. Is there a way to do a
> search in man?
> (perhaps man man will tell me? ;-)
> ^^^^^^^ I'm not home right now and
> cannot try this.
/string will probably search for a string.
actually man only find the proper manpage, it uses external program
(pager) to view the manpage.
to find out which viewer is used:
run man (to see any man page, e.g. man man)
in different session (window) run pstree and look for the man - the
last thing on that line os the pager program, e.g.
`-xdm-+-XFree86
`-xdm---sh-+-ssh-agent
`-x-window-manage-+-FvwmAnimate
|-FvwmAuto
|-FvwmCommandS
|-FvwmPager
|-gkrellm---gkrellm
|-netscapeMail.pl---communicator-sm---communicator-sm
|-oclock
|-soffice.bin---soffice.bin---5*[soffice.bin]
|-2*[x-terminal-emul---tcsh---mc---tcsh]
|-x-terminal-emul---tcsh---man---sh-+-nroff---groff-+-grotty
| | `-troff
| `-pager
|-x-terminal-emul---tcsh---bash
in the example above it's program called pager (which pager shows it's
/usr/bin/pager, which is a link to /etc/alternatices/pager, which is a
link to /usr/bin/less, that's the debian way to set the pager for all
system, if I would like to use different pager I would use
update-alternatives --config pager to make pager point to some other
viewer)
you can specify which pager to use:
specific pager, use following command line option):
-P pagerName
no pager, the output goes to stdout:
-T
specific pager (using environmental variable):
export PAGER='/usr/bin/less' # sh and derivatives (bash, ksh)
setenv PAGER '/usr/bin/less' # csh and derivatives (tcsh)
you can put the setting of PAGER variable to your shell's startup file
to have a permanent setting
erik
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Received on Sat Aug 11 2001 - 15:42:49 BST