Re^3: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl

If you define PERLDOC_PAGER=less or PAGER=less in your environment, say in .bashrc or the equivalent, it works fine. Otherwise perldoc will use more as a pager, which works, but doesn't know how to scroll backwards. That's sad.

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Re^4: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Nov 17, 2008 at 16:32 UTC
It all depends on your unix environment / version of more. HP-UX `more` handles paging backwards just fine, for example. I would agree that not being able to page backwards is a pain, but it is not a generic `more` problem, but rather a problem with the `more` program on specific distributions. --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l] [select]