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
