On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, Jeffrey R. Sunseri wrote about, Re: man / pager:
> Greetings Greg and Richard,
>
> Heh, I guess I jumped the gun. I double checked and, of course,
> you are both correct. Plain old " q " worked. I remembered how
> frustrated I was when I got stuck in the man pages and I didn't
> want the poor guy to suffer the same difficulty. And the memory
> was fresh in my mind because I got stuck in EMACS about three
> weeks ago :-) Good thing this stuff is so much fun to learn.
There is one thing which often gets forgotten, the dirty way out of any
program is;
In a console simple do;
alt-F2 (if we were on F1)
ps ax
look for the process which we cant get out of, kill its PID
kill 12345 where 12345 would be the process number, (for those who dont
have a clue what i'm talking about, its the first field displayed by 'ps ax'
In X open another terminal do the same.
> Thank you both for the friendly correction.
>
> Jeff
>
> > 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 ).
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Regards Richard
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