Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time. Bill, Thank you for your

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Ashok TM
send me ur citiback card no On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it hits eof while ``-E''

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:02 -0700 Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the

man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Please try this: 1. at the prompt type man man to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G. Question: How can I make man not quit back

man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Stankevitz writes: Please try this: 1. at the prompt type man man to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/10/13 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@yahoo.com: Please try this: 1. at the prompt type man man to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man quits back to the prompt

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Campbell
quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G. Question: How can I make man not quit back to the prompt after CTRL-G? The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes