PAGER=most

[balanga]

Not sure how many people have heard about sysutils/most but I'm using it at as a replacement for less and am very pleased with.

I think it is worth looking at.

 

[VladiBG]

Just don't change the ROOT account shell or pager. When you upgrade your system any major update will break the userland apps and for example if you change the root's shell to bash or something else and this shell doesn't work with the new kernel before you have a chance to upgrade the userland apps you will need to use /rescue tools. Same is valid for the PAGER and EDITOR as they are used to display and edit the merge information during major upgrade.

 

[balanga]

I changed it in ~/.profile.

Does that get overwritten after an upgrade?

 

[VladiBG]

I'm talking about the root user for regular users it doesn't matter. No the ~/.profile or any user configuration are not changed during the upgrade.

 

[cracauer@]

As long as you don't upgrade packages to a newer version than your base system is that breakage shouldn't happen. Often.