Translations:Man page/Navigate/34/en

If you hit a search result by accident and want to continue searching for the same results, simply press the key again, and press  (i.e. don't put a pattern it). This will cause the search to default to the last pattern used. Now with some man pages, options are listed, then explained later on. Take the man 5 portage man page. It lists the files used, then explains their usage. Searching forward a few times would return the results, but there's an easier way to handle this, with the second search form, backwards searching. Let's use this to find the description on. First, bring up man 5 portage: