Re: Space in POSIX path/Terminal shell
Re: Space in POSIX path/Terminal shell
- Subject: Re: Space in POSIX path/Terminal shell
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 23:57:40 -0700
At 2:00 AM +0200 4/7/03, Philippe GRUCHET wrote:
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Strange, the window displays what it can, and then, to get the whole documentation (from ["NAME" to "THANKS TO"]), I've to keep pressed the Return key a couple of minutes.
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And the Terminal just print the first page.
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Is it normal?
This is the "less" program, which is related to the "more" program except that it can scroll backwards too. Press the h key for a help page or do a "man less". You can use all sorts of keys to do all sorts of things.
Basically, man uses less to display text on a terminal which may not have a history buffer, so it allows you to navigate through the text by lines or pages, forwards or backwards.
The annoyance of this is one reason I recommended ManOpen. It just displays it all in a standard window so you just scroll up and down instead of driving with the keyboard.
How quaint though. Virtual windows. ;)
Jon
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