Man pages

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Saturday, February 28, 2004 07:28 am, Leo J Mauler wrote:

> > While I'm on the subject of man pages, anyone know
> > how to navigate in them other than up/down/scroll xx lines? 

> Aren't man pages rendered in TeX or LaTeX?  

We could continue to speculate, or we could do "man man", which would reveal 
that they're formatted with nroff, and passed to a pager which can be set 
with the -p option, but which defaults to "less", on which there is also a 
man page.

I've always found that the Page Up, Page Down, up and down arrow keys worked 
fine for me, unless I was ridiculously deep in shells (terminal running on 
XWindows ssh'd to the shell on the firewall, which is ssh'd to the server 
running "screen"...).

Oh, forward slash for search forward, question mark for search back.