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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-10-11 17:45:49 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-10-11 17:45:49 +0200
commit6e16066e8ecd92e69b8f1e4bad728ee5b4cb7d34 (patch)
tree0feffb8df82050d83771c5a0a2799bf353551f28 /man/less-variables.xml
parent40f45ff0c339971fd088e6f9cc2e61444087685d (diff)
man: expand the documentation of $SYSTEMD_PAGER and related environment variables
Document the default pagers used, as well as $SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET. Fixes: #4143
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<refsect1>
- <title>Environment</title>
-
- <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
- <varlistentry id='pager'>
- <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER</varname></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Pager to use when
- <option>--no-pager</option> is not given;
- overrides <varname>$PAGER</varname>. Setting
- this to an empty string or the value
- <literal>cat</literal> is equivalent to passing
- <option>--no-pager</option>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id='less'>
- <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESS</varname></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Override the default
- options passed to
- <command>less</command>
- (<literal>FRSXMK</literal>).</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <title>Environment</title>
+
+ <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
+ <varlistentry id='pager'>
+ <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Pager to use when <option>--no-pager</option> is not given; overrides
+ <varname>$PAGER</varname>. If neither <varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER</varname> nor <varname>$PAGER</varname> are set, a
+ set of well-known pager implementations are tried in turn, including
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>less</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> and
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>more</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, until one is found. If
+ no pager implementation is discovered no pager is invoked. Setting this environment variable to an empty string
+ or the value <literal>cat</literal> is equivalent to passing <option>--no-pager</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id='less'>
+ <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESS</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Override the options passed to <command>less</command> (by default
+ <literal>FRSXMK</literal>).</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id='lesscharset'>
+ <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Override the charset passed to <command>less</command> (by default <literal>utf-8</literal>, if
+ the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8 compatible).</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
</refsect1>