From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: man in shell mode
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:23:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iqt0n4$hds$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=WTbfLudCM8jh7uXMzk9deV=kkqg@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/16/11 11:31 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Shiyuan<gshy2014@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> The man command does not work well in shell mode. How should I set it up?
>
> Why don't you try `M-x man' or `M-x woman' instead? I think man
> doesn't work on shell mode because of a lack of an appropriate pager.
> It might work with 'cat' or 'more' in shell mode.
M-x man is better, but you could set & export PAGER=cat in your
~/.emacs_SHELLNAME file (as I do).
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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2011-05-15 19:00 man in shell mode Shiyuan
2011-05-16 17:31 ` suvayu ali
2011-05-17 5:23 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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