David H. Gutteridge wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Mon, 16 May 2022 at 21:05:59 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |>Rocky Hotas wrote in |> <20220516180129.gwvmvesgw4dxeage@delpotro>: |>|On mag 16 18:11, Rocky Hotas wrote: |>|> |>|> Am I doing something wrong? |> ... |>|perl5320delta (1) what is new for perl v5.32.0 |>|...Configure 4 For clang++, add "#include <stdlib.h>" to Configure's |>|probes for "futimes", "strtoll", "strtoul", "strtoull", "strtouq", |>|otherwise the probes would fail to compile. 4 Use a compile and run |>|test for "lchown" to satisfy clang++ which should more... |>| |>|--More--(byte 3792)myhostname$ |>| |>|Where `myhostname$' is my bash prompt. So, more(1) tries to start, |but |>|it immediately exits. |> ... |>I have no idea but does the program combo honour $LESS and if so |>does it contain use of alternate screen and quit-at-eof? |>What does "LESS= apropos X" do? |>And are there terminal controls somewhere in the one page. |>Other than that it gets more complicated. | |It does accept $PAGER as a definition of what tool to use for the |purpose, though that wasn't documented in the apropos(1) man page. I |just added it. | |Due to evidently historical reasons (as I understand it), interestingly |the man(1) code handles this rather differently than apropos(1) does, |with more considerations (about checking and sanitizing input), and a |different call to run the pager.
It was quite heavily broken far beyond what i thought it seems. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
