Does this mean that you can set man to use vi? If so how. I *just* 
learned I could set my shell to use vi commands. I've changed pine to 
use vi and if I could change more prehaps it'll give me the motivation 
to become a true  vi power user.

Thanks,
Carl P.


Brian Cluff wrote:

>>2. Since this is perhaps a bit more general to BSD/Linux - I am quite
>>comfortable with the key's for console usage on RedHat - i.e. when
>>reading man pages, less etc, I can use "w" for up, "z" for down, up
>>arrow/down arrow and so forth. These don't seem to work in OSX.
>>
>
>You don't actually view man pages with man.  It dumps them into the selected
>viewing program.  Under linux its less, my guess is that under OSX it is
>more.
>
>Out of the man page:
>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.  This  version  knows
>about  the MANPATH and (MAN)PAGER environment variables, so you can have
>your own set(s) of personal man pages and choose  whatever  program  you
>like  to display the formatted pages.
>
>You'll have to check to see if OSX even has less available to it.
>
>Brian Cluff
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