Linux Useablity

Andrew Moore amoore at mooresystems.com
Fri Feb 27 18:09:53 CST 2004


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:40:37AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> While I'm on the subject of man pages, anyone know
> how to navigate in them other than up/down/scroll xx lines? I 
> suppose it's a vi interface? God, I hate vi! I need a beer.

I believe that man uses $PAGER as your pager, but usually behaves like
"more" or "less". I use <space> to move down a page or <return> to
scroll. Many other keys like the arrow keys work in intuitive ways. 

See the man pages for "man" and "less" for more information.

-Andy




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