On 05/15/17 19:18, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Hi Edgar,
Edgar Pettijohn wrote on Mon, May 15, 2017 at 06:57:57PM -0500:
I think this may be normal, but I can't seem to find it documented anywhere.
While viewing a man page in xterm if I hit the 'v' key it appears to open it
for editing in vi. I did so accidentally recently and at first I thought I
broke something because of all the "F^HFI^HIL^HLE^,etc" which I assume are
man markup characters. I looked around for documentation on this "feature",
but I'm not sure where to look vi, mandoc, xterm? So is this a bug somewhere
or expected behavior?
It may be less(1) expected than you think, but it is.
Actually editing the file is not very useful because it's a tmp file.
To get out of vi(1) again, just use the normal ":q".
For documentation, see
http://man.openbsd.org/less#v
or type "man less", then hit the keys ENTER, COLON, t, v, ENTER.
If you don't like all that, you can set
$ export LESSEDIT=false
Yours,
Ingo
Thanks to Ingo and Mike. After reading your replies I vaguely recall
reading that in the past.
