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-rw-r--r--miscutils/man.c22
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c
index d3e832bd7..51baceb16 100644
--- a/miscutils/man.c
+++ b/miscutils/man.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ int man_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
int man_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
{
parser_t *parser;
- const char *pager;
+ const char *pager = ENABLE_LESS ? "less" : "more";
char **man_path_list;
char *sec_list;
char *cur_path, *cur_sect;
@@ -171,12 +171,6 @@ int man_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
man_path_list[0] = (char*)"/usr/man";
else
count_mp++;
- pager = getenv("MANPAGER");
- if (!pager) {
- pager = getenv("PAGER");
- if (!pager)
- pager = "more";
- }
/* Parse man.conf[ig] or man_db.conf */
/* man version 1.6f uses man.config */
@@ -190,6 +184,11 @@ int man_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
while (config_read(parser, token, 2, 0, "# \t", PARSE_NORMAL)) {
if (!token[1])
continue;
+ if (strcmp("DEFINE", token[0]) == 0) {
+ if (strncmp("pager", token[1], 5) == 0) {
+ pager = xstrdup(skip_whitespace(token[1]) + 5);
+ }
+ } else
if (strcmp("MANDATORY_MANPATH"+10, token[0]) == 0 /* "MANPATH"? */
|| strcmp("MANDATORY_MANPATH", token[0]) == 0
) {
@@ -230,6 +229,15 @@ int man_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
}
config_close(parser);
+ {
+ /* environment overrides setting from man.config */
+ char *env_pager = getenv("MANPAGER");
+ if (!env_pager)
+ env_pager = getenv("PAGER");
+ if (env_pager)
+ pager = env_pager;
+ }
+
not_found = 0;
do { /* for each argv[] */
int found = 0;