Noob Q? man and other editors in shell... (resolved)

[Cuddles]

I realize that this has got to be the noobest question anyone can think of, but, I have crashed so many konsole shell screens to the point of loosing my shell completely...

When in man, how to you EXIT man, and return to the calling shell?

I tried [esc], no luck, I tried [ctrl]+C, no luck, I tried Q and [ctrl]+Q, both, no luck...

How do you get out of these things? I was in a apt-get upgrade, and ended up in a man page from one of the upgrades, didn't figure out how to get out, and ended up crashing the shell screen. I ended up having to rerun the apt-get to find out that my boo-boo needed to be resolved by doing a dpkg --configure -a to correct it.

Is their a "common" -=- non-crashing -=- method to exiting a man, or an editor like man?

Thanks a billion,
Cuddles

[windos_no_thanks]

It IS q (both upper and lower case seem to work)
BTW, man is not an editor, it's not even a viewer. In a default Knoppix setup man automatically pipes it's output to "more", so it you want to learn what keys to use read more's man page first.

[windos_no_thanks]

Oops, it used to be " more" in traditional unix but in Knoppix it seems to be "less" , which is compatible but has more features than "more".

[Hunkah]

even though it's "less"?

[windos_no_thanks]

even though it's "less"?

Yep, people like to play games with the names of their software, especially when it is similar to something that already exists. There is also another more substitute called "most" that is supposed to be even more advanced than less.