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[Bug 611141] Re: It is not obvious that "q" must be pressed to exit help (man pages)

 

What if we use the -P (pager) option of man and use less (a more common
package that also adds the exit info)?

I had to install most for dependencies today... XD

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Title:
  It is not obvious that "q" must be pressed to exit help (man pages)

Status in CLI Companion:
  Fix Committed
Status in CLI Companion trunk series:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  It is not immediately apparent to the target audience that "q" must be
  pressed to exit the help function (man pages).

  When showing CLIcompanion to a group of four people who were
  unfamiliar with the terminal (i.e. the target audience for this app) I
  noticed that they were pressing "ESC", "enter" & "CTRL"+"x". They also
  tried clicking on the "help" button again. One user closed the app (by
  clicking on the close "X" window control [top left corner]) & then re-
  launching the app to workaround this problem.

  Once I explained to them that they need to press "q" & then "enter"
  they were able to continue using CLIcompanion.

  "ESC" seemed to be the first option all of these four users tried
  first. Perhaps we could map "ESC" to exit the man page?

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