[R-sig-Fedora] Scrolling in Help System Doesn't Work

[Tom Callaway]

On 08/08/2011 12:50 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
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> On Aug 8, 2011, at 17:13 , Tom Callaway wrote:
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>> On 08/05/2011 11:56 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>>> On my old F13 box, R 2.13.0 still uses "less" by default. Since "less"
>>> is often regarded as a more sophisticated version of "more", I wonder
>>> why this change has been made.
>>
>> The change is not Fedora specific, we use the default Environ from upstream.
>>
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> But that is generated by configure, which does
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> configure:for ac_prog in ${PAGER} less more page pg
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> so if it ends up with "more" as the default, I'd say that the test for "less" failed in the build environment. Either that or the shell itself sets PAGER to "more".
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> (Conversely, you can always override it by "export PAGER=less" before starting R, or Sys.setenv(PAGER="less"), etc.)

Aha! Okay, so that's easy enough to fix. Not really worthy of pushing an 
update for, but I'll update the spec file in git so that on the next 
update, less will be present in the buildroot.

~tom

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