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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 17:48:04
Message-Id: 20080501174753.GA24474@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED by Wolf Canis
1 On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:
2
3 > Michael George wrote:
4 > |
5 > | It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the
6 > | problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change,
7 > | so I ran etc-update this time and found it.
8 > |
9 > | Hopefully this will be helpful for someone.
10 > Hello,
11 > yes it's helpful, but I used etc-update and was to fast and
12 > can't remember what are the changes. Could you give me an idea of the
13 > working NROFF definition?
14 >
15 > For now, I solved it by changing the MANPAGER variable to "less". I had
16 > set MANPAGER to "vimmanpager". Perhaps I have a additional problem?
17
18 I searched for NROFF in /etc/man-conf and found a note saying to add
19 "-c" if something had a specific version. I tried that and it works
20 now. There may be otehr fixesm but that works for me. Just edit it
21 and look for NROFF, it's in a comment.
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Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED Wolf Canis <wolf.canis@××××××××××.com>