On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 08:24 -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote: > On 2022-05-17 04:33, Rocky Hotas wrote: > > On mag 16 21:51, David H. Gutteridge wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > FTR, for some reason in my default env(1) variable PAGER is not set: > > it > > is empty. However, if (for example) I try to set it to `more', > > apropos(1) > > behaves as described yesterday, so there are no improvements. > > Yes, it won't be set by default, no more than $APROPOS would be. I > didn't mean to imply setting it will fix your issue, I was just noting > it wasn't documented before. You'd have to try a patched version of > the apropos(1) command.
This (along with other fixes) has now been pulled up to the netbsd-9 branch, so the next releng build of 9.2_STABLE will include it. Regards, Dave