11.1.8 Selecting Man Pages Using the man
Command
To read a man page enter man man_page. If a man page with the same name exists
in different sections, they will all be listed with the corresponding section numbers.
Select the one to display. If you don't enter a section number within a few seconds, the
rst man page will be displayed.
If you want to change this to the default system behavior, set
MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 in a shell initialization le such as ~/.bashrc.
11.1.9 Settings for GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is a complex work environment. The following sections cover the con-
guration les processed when GNU Emacs is started. More information is available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/.
On start-up, Emacs reads several les containing the settings of the user, system admin-
istrator and distributor for customization or preconguration. The initialization le ~/
.emacs is installed to the home directories of the individual users from /etc/skel.
.emacs, in turn, reads the le /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs. To customize the program,
copy .gnu-emacs to the home directory (with cp /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
~/.gnu-emacs) and make the desired settings there.
.gnu-emacs denes the le ~/.gnu-emacs-custom as custom-file. If users
make settings with the customize options in Emacs, the settings are saved to ~/
.gnu-emacs-custom.
With openSUSE, the emacs package installs the le site-start.el in the direc-
tory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. The le site-start.el is loaded before
the initialization le ~/.emacs. Among other things, site-start.el ensures that
special conguration les distributed with Emacs add-on packages, such as psgml,
are loaded automatically. Conguration les of this type are located in /usr/share/
emacs/site-lisp, too, and always begin with suse-start-. The local system
administrator can specify systemwide settings in default.el.
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