Hi Ted,

Ted Unangst wrote on Sun, May 11, 2014 at 02:51:10PM -0400:

> since the less update, man doesn't behave the same.

Not since the less update, but since

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/less/main.c#rev1.14

> When I read a short man page, like vether, on a tall terminal, it used
> to just print the man page and return me to the shell. Now it hangs
> around in less making me press space to exit.

You are not talking about less(1), but about more(1); less(1) would
require pressing 'q' to exit.

The change in behaviour is not a regression, but required by POSIX.

You can get back the POSIX-violating behaviour you seem to prefer by
setting: export PAGER='more -F'.

Yours,
  Ingo

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