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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-10-11 17:45:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-10-11 17:45:49 +0200 |
| commit | 6e16066e8ecd92e69b8f1e4bad728ee5b4cb7d34 (patch) | |
| tree | 0feffb8df82050d83771c5a0a2799bf353551f28 /man/less-variables.xml | |
| parent | 40f45ff0c339971fd088e6f9cc2e61444087685d (diff) | |
man: expand the documentation of $SYSTEMD_PAGER and related environment variables
Document the default pagers used, as well as $SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET.
Fixes: #4143
Diffstat (limited to 'man/less-variables.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/less-variables.xml | 53 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/man/less-variables.xml b/man/less-variables.xml index 0fb4d7fbcf..1f34cbc1bf 100644 --- a/man/less-variables.xml +++ b/man/less-variables.xml @@ -3,27 +3,34 @@ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"> <refsect1> - <title>Environment</title> - - <variablelist class='environment-variables'> - <varlistentry id='pager'> - <term><varname>$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> |