MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less -isM... M, I said!!
I edited .bashrc to export -isM. No dice. So naturally, editing /etc/profile to include -isM didn't work. Nor did just -M. Not even running man with the command line -P switch. I did a web search and turned up nothing. Searched two boards and got back 2 results at each, none of which were relevant. Any help?
All I want is
foo lines 1-23/389 2%
instead of
lines 1-23
I hate not knowing if I'm opening a man *page* or a man *book* and whether I can take the time to read the whole thing or need to make some major time to do so. I could get the filesize or scroll to the end or whatever, but it's the principle of the thing. Why does something as simple as this not work? Is man even using less? The man pages and environment variables says it is and I got an error when I tried zless for the hell of it.
While I'm at it, is there any reason I can't delete all the internationalized man pages in /usr/man? Wasting space, extending search times, and utterly useless to me. Thanks.
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