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systemd-stable/man/less-variables.xml
Lennart Poettering 6e16066e8e man: expand the documentation of $SYSTEMD_PAGER and related environment variables
Document the default pagers used, as well as $SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET.

Fixes: #4143
2016-10-11 17:45:49 +02:00

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"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>. 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>