sys-apps/man behavior changes [FIXED]

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pandaxiongmao · Post by **pandaxiongmao** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:43 pm

I just noticed it recently that I could no longer press b button on the keyboard to scroll up while reading the manpage, and a few of the manpages, such as the one that belongs to emerge, suffer from corrupted formatting perhaps as the result of the man update. Somehow, man program forgets what proper page formatting should be. I also noticed plenty of â (accented a) symbols everywhere on the manpage that I was trying to read.

Here is an example.

It is less worse (no boxes) if I use xterm to view the manpage, but the â still appears occasionally.

Did anyone else notice this?

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:30 pm

Did your $PAGER variable get changed somehow? By default, man uses /usr/bin/less -is and that is where the 'b' and all the keyboard shortcuts come from.

Look at eselect pager list

pandaxiongmao · Post by **pandaxiongmao** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:10 am

Thanks.

Setting the pager to /usr/bin/less did the trick, and my shortcut is back. However, I could still see the symbol, â (accented a), everywhere on the manpage, and I still cannot figure what's going on.

pandaxiongmao · Post by **pandaxiongmao** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:36 am

Fixed.

Commenting the export LANG line on .bashrc solved it.