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Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
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Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window


  • Subject: Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
  • From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 07:28:41 -0600

On Apr 6, 2004, at 2:59 AM, Lorenzo wrote:

I asked for "man hdiutil", then I pressed Return several times to scroll
down the info (fine), but when I scrolled up to read the previous pages, I
found a white window. I tried to change some pref unsuccessfully.

If all you want to do is read man pages, then there are several GUI tools that can do that; I use ManOpen. Xcode also has a man page reader, but it throws off the formatting of some pages...

As for the terminal problem, this has nothing to do with Cocoa, but on Mac OS X the default reader program used by "man" is Less. When you use Less, you don't scroll back in the Terminal in order to find text. Instead, you can use the arrow keys to scroll up or down, or press 'b' to go back a page. When you're running Less, type 'h' for help. And you can change the reader program by setting the "PAGER" environmental variable.

Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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