Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:44:53 +0100
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Thursday 14 Apr 2005 12:27, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:18:44 +0200

Frans Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thursday 14 April 2005 12:25, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:

How do I end viewing man pages in konsole, so that I get back
to the command line to do something.
Thanks

Just type 'q' to quit :-)

HTH,

-Frans

Thanks Frans and Marek :-) dumb question I know!


Hey - you don't know how many times I had to just close konsole before I found it <g>. I didn't know how to get out of a su in konsole, either. It must have been months later when someone told me to type 'exit' for that. It's nice to see such consistency isn't it? ;-)

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Heaving a great sigh of relief! :-)  I've been meaning to ask but then
forget.  I've been closing konsole (did to get out of su too for a
while) and wondering if it contributed to my system becoming so
corrupted.  Consistency is good :-)

Rosemary

Well, the "exit" works to exit just about any shell. It will get you out of the chroot shell, or close an xterm, as well as exiting the su shell. It will also log you out from the command line interface.

You can also use "logout" to exit a su shell. It is also the normal way to log out of the CLI.

Now, as far as exiting when viewing a man page from the CLI, this is controlled by the program that is used to display the man page. By default, "less" is used on most Linux systems. But you can change this.

-P  pager
      Specify  which pager to use.  This option overrides the MANPAGER
      environment variable, which in turn overrides  the  PAGER
      variable.  By default, man uses /usr/bin/less -isR.

If you wanted to, you could do something like:

man -P nano man

And view the man page in nano. Then the command to exit would be Ctrl-X to exit nano.

Mikkel
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