Re: bin/59904: apropos don't respect PAGER

["Valery Ushakov via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/59904; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/59904: apropos don't respect PAGER
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:31:52 +0300

 On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 23:30:00 +0000, cbusquet%yahoo.fr@localhost via gnats wrote:
 
 > apropos(1) do not use the $PAGER env. variables as stated in the
 > manual page
 
 You are misreading the manual page.  You need to explicitly tell it to
 use the pager by specifying the -p flag (you can also do this with an
 APROPOS environment variable).
 
 -uwe