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Re: Default PAGER -> less



Kamil Rytarowski writes:
> It would be nice to support MANPAGER that will overshadow PAGER in our
> man(1).

Why? (just out of curiosity, but why is it handy to have a different
PAGER for man(1) than other utilities?)

> Can we go a different route and prepare a first-timer man-page that is
> advertised in motd(5)?
> 
> We could put there notes about pkgsrc, pkgin, EDITOR, PAGER, networking,
> wifi etc.

In part I think that afterboot(8) contains some of these information
and/or can be a place for that! :)


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