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Authored by asomers on Dec 12 2017, 5:58 PM.
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man(1): change default pager to "less -s"

Finally, a pager from the nineties.

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Someone pointed out on the mailing list that if I modify man(1), I should also modify every other command with a builtin pager. I'll do that.

Additionally change the defaults for mandoc, apropos, ftp, mail, msgs,
mergemaster, and freebsd-update. And change the default PAGER variable in
/usr/share/skel, /root, and tools/tools/nanobsd.

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Aug 8 2018, 7:24 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.