man / pager [was:Re: Newbie from hell]

[Greg Olszewski]

> < SNIP >
> 
> Errrk, flashback !  The keystrokes to *exit* a man page are:
> 
> SHIFT : Q
> 
 Whoops. This actually has nothing to do with the program man.
 man invokes pager, which on a Linux system is normally a
 symlink to either less or more.

 according to man more:
 Q or q or INTERRUPT [control-c]
        exit.

 according to man less:
 q or Q or :q or :Q or ZZ
        Exits less.

either way, q will get you out. 
Yeah, I do it the way you list ( vi habits die hard ).

 
greg
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