[OpenIndiana-discuss] 'less' Esc sequences in peldoc output

[Harry Putnam]

Oscar del Rio <delrio at mie.utoronto.ca> writes:

> On 04/ 3/14 11:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> However, it was not the variable PERLDOC_PAGER that did the trick but the
>> variable PAGER is where applying -r to less did the job.
>
> From "perldoc perldoc":
>
>      "perldoc" will use, in order of preference, the pager
>      defined in "PERLDOC_PAGER", "MANPAGER", or "PAGER" before
>      trying to find a pager on its own.

Thanks, yeah, I had assumed... once I noticed it worked on PAGER but
not on PERLDOC_PAGER that there was some kind of pecking order
involved.