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Old 23rd October 2011
jb_daefo jb_daefo is offline
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Originally Posted by OS_Stuntman View Post
Hello,

How do I pipe a man page into emacs for searching, or how do I make grep mimic an html anchor?
I'm not familiar with either of those two methodologies, but I set PAGER to
Code:
/usr/ports/sysutils/lookat
because of its "s key" dialogs as well as other keybindings seem to work better from this perspective at least. Edit: forgot to explain HOW to set pager: in one's shell rc file this may work (not a usually seen construct...)
Code:
 alias man='env PAGER=lookat man $1'
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